Re: That awful Apple QuickTime

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*** Baker wrote:
For years, I've periodically tried installing QT only to be outraged by the
fact that it seizes all video & audio file associations without asking.
Over and over, I've banished it from my PCs.

But now, in a moment of weakness (foolishness?), I've bought an iPhone, and
it appears that Apple doesn't like PDF help files--it prefers tutorials in
*.mov format. So I gingerly tried again to install the latest version of
QuickTime Player (7.6.2). To my pleasant surprise, it actually presented
an installation option for file and MIME type associations. For both, I
deselected *everything* except Apple QT movies (*.mov).

And, to my pleasant surprise, it does not seem to have seized any file
associations on the computer. BUT when I ran MSIE and went to my
twotonbaker.com site and tried to play mp3 files there, I discovered that
both MSIE and SeaMonkey (the browser I prefer to use -- pace, Windows
purists) were using QT as the default player for mp3 files. And no setup
options I could find in either browser could undo this travesty.

Typical friggin' Apple arrogance and misbehavior, but I'm stuck with it.
Does anybody know how to reset Windows Media Player as the MSIE default mp3
player after you've been MacRaped?

Yes I agree Apple does make things difficult for pc users. I've had
Quicktime on my pc's for several years without any problems, but getting
it to behave and not reclaim file associations isn't very intuitive.

To start off you first need to open the Quicktime player, Start - All
Programs - QuickTime - QuickTime Player. Once it's open click on Edit -
Preferences - QuickTime Preferences. When the preferences window opens,
click on the filetypes tab. Towards the bottom of the window make sure
that there *_is_* a check mark next to the line that says "Notify me if
other applications modify these settings." Now click on ok and close
the QuickTime player.

Now open Windows Media Player and right click on the menu bar, then on
the drop-down menu click on Tools - Options. In options click on the
filetypes tab and set them to your liking. Click ok and close WMP.

Now open QuickTime player again. You should have a window pop-up that
says that the filetypes for QuickTime have been changed and asks if you
want to reclaim them. Towards the bottom of that window there should
be a line that says something like "Do not perform this check again.."
click on the box to put a check mark there, then click on the No button.
Then once QuickTime opens you can close it.

Once I did all of that, I have not had a problem with QuickTime
reclaiming filetype associations since then.

--

Roy Smith
Windows XP Pro SP3
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