REMOVING QUICKTIME FROM STARTUP

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Hi!
I have Windows 2000 Professional on a Pentium II p.c., and I’m trying to speed up my startup. One of the programs that auto-launches is Quicktime, which I always have to close afterward. I’ve used the Startup feature in Tune-Up Utilities and deleted it from the item menu, which works for a couple of days, after that Quicktime is right back even after deleting via Tune-Up. Since the deletion isn’t “taking” apparently, I was wondering if anyone knows the specific file name so I could go in and disable it in the windows startup. Now remember I don’t want to remove the program, because obviously it’s needed, I just don’t want it auto-starting. Any suggestions?

Scorpioninblue

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Just remove the startup entry from the registry.
You can do it with HijackThis.

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I don’t know about that Eddy, from what I understand Hijack This is not a tool for the inexperienced, and I’m not a computerphile on that level, if it involves a lot of probing in the registry, I think I’ll just leave things well enough alone, I don’t have the program disk and if the wrong thing gets deleted, well I’ll be high up the creek without a paddle!!!

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  • Start HijackThis
  • let it scan your system
  • put a checkmark in front of:
    O4 - HKLM..\Run: [QuickTime Task] “C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe” -atboottime
  • click "fix selected
  • close HijackThis

That will do what you want.

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Go to my computer and control panel. Right click on the Quicktime icon and uncheck the run at startup option.

PigDog