Al Thompson wrote:
>Against my better judgement I've once again installed QuickTime.
>However, I don't want it starting with windows, but it keeps
>re-enabling itself on the 'startup' tab in the 'system
>configuration utility'. Anyone know how to prevent this in
>Windows ME ?


Fred Langa included the solution to this in one of his recent
newsletters.

      "Note that with the latest version of Quicktime, you can
      hide the icon from appearing in your system tray, but the
      application will still be running in the background.

      "I hate things that insist on loading themselves at startup
      with a passion, so I went hunting for a solution.

      "The solution at
      <http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1042641285>
      that worked for me was as follows:

      1. Open up Regedit & browse to
         HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run
      2. Delete the "QuickTime Task" Registry Key
      3. Search for all instances of qttask.exe on your system
         drive and rename to something like qttask2.exe (I renamed
         mine to "qttask.exe.disabled")

      "Worked like a charm. I'm now free of this annoyance with
      no ill effects and QuickTime continues to work perfectly."

Regards,
Bill

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