OT: Undoing QuickTime defaults

PossibilityX wrote on 5/19/2006, 2:11 PM
Probably against my better judgement, and after a long time away from iTunes / QuickTime, I reloaded the programs only to have QT somehow assign itself as the default player for a number of file formats.

I don't want QT to be the default player, I want Windows Media Player to be the default player.

Unchecking everything in QT preferences seems to have done nothing to resolve the problem.

I guess this is elementary stuff for everyone, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to have QT stay way the hell in the background unless I specifically ask it to play a QT movie. I don't want it playing my MP3s, MPEGs, or anything else. I just want it to sit in the background and be invisible.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

---John

Comments

bStro wrote on 5/19/2006, 2:20 PM
Telling one program not to be the default application won't change your system settings; how would your system know what to use unless you tell it so? You have to open up the program that you do want to be the default application and tell it to do so. Check Windows Media Player's settings. And if that doesn't work, go to Windows Explorer, right-click a relevant file, choose Properties, and click the Change button next to "Open With".

Rob
Former user wrote on 5/19/2006, 6:41 PM
Open any folder, Click on TOOLS on the top of the folder, Click on FOLDER OPTIONS, then click on FILE TYPES.

Here you can select any file type and associate it to any program.

Dave T2
epirb wrote on 5/20/2006, 8:08 AM
>And if that doesn't work, go to Windows Explorer, right-click a relevant file, choose Properties, and click the Change button next to "Open With".<
Also make sure you check the box down in the corner that says "always use this when opening this type file".
or something like that, it doesnt mean it will only work in that program it just make its the windows defualt player.