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By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:35:30 +0000

Yes, I repeatedly stop it in the services panel from running. It continues to come back.

By: Eric Coleman

Eric Coleman — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:09:03 +0000

it was the lack of attention to detail.

As for not running at startup, did you try stopping it in the Services panel?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:46:16 +0000

Thanks Eric, but I don’t want the icon to just go away. I want the application to stop running at start-up. I’m not sure what the comment labels have to do with it being a Microsoft blog.

By: Eric Coleman

Eric Coleman — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:50:57 +0000

You could just open the QuickTime prefs and turn off the tray icon… I’m pretty sure it’s an option, atleast it used to be.

And your comment form here is -extremly- hard to read the labels… you could guess it’s a microsoft blog :p

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:52:04 +0000

Oh that’s great! Already done it and ready to start tagging some more entries to stop running.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:32:01 +0000

Try adding a ‘;’ to it’s entry in Regedit.
Run Regedit, go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Double click on the quicktime task and add a semicolon at the start of the entry in Value Data. This stops it from running, but as the entry is still there, QT doesn’t try to “fix” it. I use this for any entry in the registry that I don’t want to start. It also means I can easily undo it if I have to.