Quicktime installs a very annoying process when you install it on Windows XP called qttask.exe that you may often see running in your taskbar and processlist. There is no way to stop it running from within quicktime's preferences. Instead, you must:

• Go to 'Start' -> 'Run'
• Type 'regedit' and click 'OK'
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apple Computer, Inc.\QuickTime\ActiveX
• Find the value QTTaskRunFlags, right click on it and change the value to 0
• Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
  Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
• Delete the value pointing to qttask.exe

That should stop it running automatically when you start windows or when you open Quicktime.

If you are also stuck with iTunes then see this post about removing it after you've installed Quicktime

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Comments:

great! - I really hate that shit.

band.
posted by  Anonymous : June 15, 2005 4:39 AM  

You are a GOD! I always had to right click the icon in the task bar and exit manually which was super annoying :(
posted by  Streamleaf : May 23, 2006 2:33 PM  

Great, thanksomsoghbs
posted by  Anonymous : July 20, 2007 9:03 AM  

Many thanks ... this was irritating me beyond belief ... Al
posted by  Anonymous : November 11, 2007 1:13 PM  

Thanks very much. Got rid of a virus that had taken over quick time.
posted by  Anonymous : November 20, 2007 8:01 PM  

Brilliant - thanks
posted by  Anonymous : January 30, 2008 2:11 PM  

fantastic thanks
posted by  Anonymous : March 28, 2008 11:53 PM  

Thank you so much, Karl. You are great.
Marcel Abel
posted by  Marcel Abel : March 29, 2008 9:53 PM  

Karl,many thanks.
ewa
posted by  Anonymous : April 07, 2008 2:38 PM  

Startup Control Panel applet

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

a small simple tool for disabling start up junk
It also has the option to permanently delete
posted by  Anonymous : June 21, 2008 10:42 AM  

Mr Bunyan, you are a true gentleman.
posted by  Anonymous : August 18, 2008 11:34 PM  

On another site, I found this comment:

"Quicktime checks to see if the entry is present and restores it if it has been removed. WORKAROUND: place a ; (semi colon)in front of the entry, which turns it into a registry remark rather than a function."

But they didn't say where to put the colon.... in the registry? where in the entry?

PS. If I have iTunes, is there some way to use another tune player to play those files and/or move the files to another player?
posted by  ks-art : August 30, 2008 11:01 PM  

My most sincere thanks. I was just about to reinstall windows to get rid of a virus. Actually its 3 hours ago I picked it up at a shop where they should clean my machine, but they failed. So I bring up Windows Task Manager, find this f...... qttask.exe using all my CPU, google it and the rest is history.. Where can I send the 60 USD the computershop could not charge me? Thanks, mate. Owe you!
posted by  Anonymous : November 06, 2008 6:22 PM  

I think all software that does not have a process for removing it's occurance at startup, should be named, shamed and alternative software used.
Those software companies try to dictate how your system will operate, which is going beyond the boundaries of their program's intended use.
posted by  Anonymous : November 18, 2009 1:34 PM  

Thank you so much, Karl. You are great..GBU
posted by  Anonymous : December 26, 2009 2:50 AM  

Although you are not a god in my opinon and simply a human, you are someome who has helped me so I will pray to God to bless you with every blessing in heaven and on the earth and to do greater things in your life than we can possible imagine. Thanks very much for your help. My computer and I both say thanks.
posted by  stephen : January 15, 2010 6:01 AM  

Great post! That has bugged me for ages. Another Apple annoyance is the Bonyour application that get's installed with iTunes.
posted by  David : January 19, 2010 10:01 AM  

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