I recently upgraded an NEC DVD/CD ROM drive with a Sony DVD burner. Before I swapped drives, Music Match was launched upon disk insertion. Now, with the new drive, Quick time launches when a disk is inserted. I've tried everything to shut down Quick Time such as disenabling through start-up, changing file associations. Nothing seems to work. Do I have to uninstall Quick time to put an end to this? I'm using Windows XP. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance for your reply!
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Sony DVD Drive and auto launch of Quicktime 1
- Thread starter BobNY
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You know, it just happened to me that on bootup i see quicktime in my system tray. Its not supposed to be there so, of course, i went to msconfig and took quicktime out of my startup folders.
I dont know how this happens but it seems whenever i get sudden freezups i know enuf to go to my startup and look and see what prog is there and ticked off thats not supposed to be ticked off. Somehow these devils get ticked on all by themselves. And then i get ticked off, lol.
But quicktime is one of those that will all of a sudden appear in your system tray when its not supposed to.
So i am doing the first thing to do, running a trendmicro online scan.
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I dont know how this happens but it seems whenever i get sudden freezups i know enuf to go to my startup and look and see what prog is there and ticked off thats not supposed to be ticked off. Somehow these devils get ticked on all by themselves. And then i get ticked off, lol.
But quicktime is one of those that will all of a sudden appear in your system tray when its not supposed to.
So i am doing the first thing to do, running a trendmicro online scan.
Good advice + great people = tek-tips
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@garebo
I cannot confirm this, but I strongly believe that Quicktime has some type of malicious code that is designed to deliberatley do this kind of stuff. BTW, I also attempted to render this devil inert via omitting it from startup. No-good. It re-insterts itself. This type of behavior will also be observed by MS Messenger. I tried everything until finally I did the obvious..........I right clicked the icon in the system tray and went to properties. There is an option to prevent Messenger from launching at startup. It worked! I read all sorts of suggestions about using scripts, rearranging the order of programs in startup by writing a small script and including this in the startup sub-directory. Sometimes the obvious solution stares us in the face!
I cannot confirm this, but I strongly believe that Quicktime has some type of malicious code that is designed to deliberatley do this kind of stuff. BTW, I also attempted to render this devil inert via omitting it from startup. No-good. It re-insterts itself. This type of behavior will also be observed by MS Messenger. I tried everything until finally I did the obvious..........I right clicked the icon in the system tray and went to properties. There is an option to prevent Messenger from launching at startup. It worked! I read all sorts of suggestions about using scripts, rearranging the order of programs in startup by writing a small script and including this in the startup sub-directory. Sometimes the obvious solution stares us in the face!
BobNY, this have been going on for many many years now. You hit on one, messenger.
Now with quicktime, its notorious for this. Im not sure it quicktime itself does this, or some other program. The reason i say this is because there are worms around that will stop your antivirus from getting updates and sometimes even stop your antivirus from even working at all. Other worms will attack zone alarm and prevent it from working properly or at all.
I ran a full scan and it says i have no virus\trojan or worm. Thats good news because trendmicro can be trusted. Im not out of the woods yet, but its a relief when trendmicro says you are ok, you usually are.
Now on to other malware. Above i was talking about virus\trojans\worms. But there is other malware in the form of adware and other similar progs that get into your pc and cause all kinds of issues. Affecting your startup is only one of them.
So it may or may not be quicktime turning itself on in your msconfig\startup routine. It could be one of a number of issues.
It could even be windows itself.
And not that i am defending quicktime either.
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Now with quicktime, its notorious for this. Im not sure it quicktime itself does this, or some other program. The reason i say this is because there are worms around that will stop your antivirus from getting updates and sometimes even stop your antivirus from even working at all. Other worms will attack zone alarm and prevent it from working properly or at all.
I ran a full scan and it says i have no virus\trojan or worm. Thats good news because trendmicro can be trusted. Im not out of the woods yet, but its a relief when trendmicro says you are ok, you usually are.
Now on to other malware. Above i was talking about virus\trojans\worms. But there is other malware in the form of adware and other similar progs that get into your pc and cause all kinds of issues. Affecting your startup is only one of them.
So it may or may not be quicktime turning itself on in your msconfig\startup routine. It could be one of a number of issues.
It could even be windows itself.
And not that i am defending quicktime either.
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It's unlikely that my problem involves worms, trojans, virus', or adware. I'm running AdAwareSEPro, Spysweeper, ZoneAlarm Pro, and Norton Antivirus. And that's on top of the Windows XP standard stuff........which isn't much to speak of. Also, I keep up with all the windows security patches. I update ALL my definitions daily and run scans daily. There is no way to be completely secure or sure. But, the type of problem we are describing here is not likely one that would have gotten past this level of security. Sometimes the old maxim "If the hand offend thee, cut it off" is appropos. In this case, Quicktime got the axe.
@Garebo and BobNY - that is the reason why, when QT was on my system, that I went ahead and not just disabled QT in MSCONFIG, but threw it out of the START places in the REGISTRY... no more problem... in the meantime I have totally replaced it with the alternative, RealMedia aswell, and have had no problem what so ever again...
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
This is nothing new, of course, its happened time and time again over the years.
But in the last week i have noticed that little quicktime icon in my system tray twice. All i have to do is go into startup via msconfig and untick the little devil. But it sure is rude of this darn program.
I have kept quicktime on my pc as i believe it runs certains progs that powerdvd and others dont, but i dont know for sure which ones.
I am going to contact quicktime and tell them how much it ticks a person off to have to go and untick quicktime!
If everyone contacted them perhaps they would fix it.
If i can be sure i wont need it, i will uninstall the darn program. It just seems that if i do then i will run into something on the web or somewhere where i need quicktime!
Maybe im wrong? Is powerdvd really a substitute for quicktime? I already have powerdvd installed anyway.
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But in the last week i have noticed that little quicktime icon in my system tray twice. All i have to do is go into startup via msconfig and untick the little devil. But it sure is rude of this darn program.
I have kept quicktime on my pc as i believe it runs certains progs that powerdvd and others dont, but i dont know for sure which ones.
I am going to contact quicktime and tell them how much it ticks a person off to have to go and untick quicktime!
If everyone contacted them perhaps they would fix it.
If i can be sure i wont need it, i will uninstall the darn program. It just seems that if i do then i will run into something on the web or somewhere where i need quicktime!
Maybe im wrong? Is powerdvd really a substitute for quicktime? I already have powerdvd installed anyway.
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I went to apples site and found there is a manual for quicktime here:
Dont know if its going to be of any help.
I am going to post over there.
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Dont know if its going to be of any help.
I am going to post over there.
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Nelviticus
Programmer
What you need, ladies and gentlemen, is Startup Monitor:
Whenever something tries to add itself to the startup items, Startup Monitor pops up a dialog asking whether you want to allow it. It's great for preventing things like QuickTime from sneaking their way in.
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Nelviticus
Whenever something tries to add itself to the startup items, Startup Monitor pops up a dialog asking whether you want to allow it. It's great for preventing things like QuickTime from sneaking their way in.
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Nelviticus
when MS AntiSpyware is running it monitors the Registry, the Automatic StartUp and a few other places... it will popup with a notification when a program has nested itself in the AutoStart ramps and asks for approval...
test it, DL AnyDVD and install it... you will see what I mean...
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
test it, DL AnyDVD and install it... you will see what I mean...
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
Nelviticus
Programmer
I know this is wandering off topic, but...
Do you have to install anything extra or change any settings to make MS AntiSpyware monitor those places? I thought I had it installed because every month Windows downloads updates for it, but I've never seen it actually do anything. I don't have any program groups or shortcuts for it and I've never seen it pop up a dialog box. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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Nelviticus
Do you have to install anything extra or change any settings to make MS AntiSpyware monitor those places? I thought I had it installed because every month Windows downloads updates for it, but I've never seen it actually do anything. I don't have any program groups or shortcuts for it and I've never seen it pop up a dialog box. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Regards
Nelviticus
I have had this software installed back when it was still known as Giant software. Of course i have installed the newer one that is now owned by m\soft. It does popups.
But i looked around and i either cant find a place that refers to the startup section or mine just doesnt work. I have everthing ticked off, it says something about 25 out of 25 issues being turned on.
It may catch others but it didnt catch quicktime putting a tick back on qttask.exe in my startup the other day.
I do have it disabled properly in quicktime as well but it still gets back into startup somehow. When it stops doing it then it doesnt happen for quite a while, thats why i have put up with it.
Im going to have another look at the options in msoft antispyware.
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But i looked around and i either cant find a place that refers to the startup section or mine just doesnt work. I have everthing ticked off, it says something about 25 out of 25 issues being turned on.
It may catch others but it didnt catch quicktime putting a tick back on qttask.exe in my startup the other day.
I do have it disabled properly in quicktime as well but it still gets back into startup somehow. When it stops doing it then it doesnt happen for quite a while, thats why i have put up with it.
Im going to have another look at the options in msoft antispyware.
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Okay, i have checked m\soft antispyware pretty well now.
There is a place called system agents and i have 25 of 25 blocked there.
then there is another place that shows you your startup but nowhere is there a place to stop entried from being in there. YOu can manually delete them there but theres no auto.
I certainly stand to be corrected but i dont think there is any auto protection in this program for startup files.
It could be that the popup you are describing, Ben, is some other protection, not specifically from the startup files.
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There is a place called system agents and i have 25 of 25 blocked there.
then there is another place that shows you your startup but nowhere is there a place to stop entried from being in there. YOu can manually delete them there but theres no auto.
I certainly stand to be corrected but i dont think there is any auto protection in this program for startup files.
It could be that the popup you are describing, Ben, is some other protection, not specifically from the startup files.
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Hi there, you need to look under the Applications Agent... take a look at the following PIC and you will see what I mean...
it has both BLACK and WHITE lists, meaning that you basically tell it to allow or block a progrom from autostarting...
see:
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
it has both BLACK and WHITE lists, meaning that you basically tell it to allow or block a progrom from autostarting...
see:
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
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@garebo
I perused the Quicktime manual you suggested. I find it interesting that there is almost nothing in the entire manual that helps the user to diminish the use of the player. The very last page of the manual discusses the use of scripts to control the program. So, if you REALLY want to obtain control over this beast, one has to download applescript (for Mac users) or one has to use Javascript or some other similar scriptlanguage in order to manage this pain in the ass.
Many of you have discussed removing the item from the startup menu. As we discover through exasperation, that method will not help all the time. Even if all items in startup in the registry are deleted, it might not help. Here's why. If an audio file (i.e., mp3) is created using q-time and the file is stored on a CD-R, the program to play that file by default will be q-time and this cannot be changed by virtue of the limitations of the CD-R media. This cascade of events cannot be changed unless the autoplay is disabled (such as by holding down the Ctrl and shift keys). Then, an alternative player can be launched and the desired file started from within the preferred player.
I perused the Quicktime manual you suggested. I find it interesting that there is almost nothing in the entire manual that helps the user to diminish the use of the player. The very last page of the manual discusses the use of scripts to control the program. So, if you REALLY want to obtain control over this beast, one has to download applescript (for Mac users) or one has to use Javascript or some other similar scriptlanguage in order to manage this pain in the ass.
Many of you have discussed removing the item from the startup menu. As we discover through exasperation, that method will not help all the time. Even if all items in startup in the registry are deleted, it might not help. Here's why. If an audio file (i.e., mp3) is created using q-time and the file is stored on a CD-R, the program to play that file by default will be q-time and this cannot be changed by virtue of the limitations of the CD-R media. This cascade of events cannot be changed unless the autoplay is disabled (such as by holding down the Ctrl and shift keys). Then, an alternative player can be launched and the desired file started from within the preferred player.
Badbigben
I was talking about that already. I see no place to make any kind of user changes. I have been to that very page you posted.
And i have it active, in fact i have all 25 of these active and i dont get notices of changes in my startup folder.
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I was talking about that already. I see no place to make any kind of user changes. I have been to that very page you posted.
And i have it active, in fact i have all 25 of these active and i dont get notices of changes in my startup folder.
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