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quick time annoys me
Thanx, Trekky, that's been bothering me for some time now.Trekky8472 said
Go to the Control Panel. Double click the Quicktime Icon. Use the drop down arrow to naviaget to "Browser Plug-in." Uncheck "Quicktime system tray icon."
You should be good to go.
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. Just playing with you, guess it is really about prefrence.
Exactly.NightShade737 had this to say
Probably the things that keep starting on Startup, that and the "UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO!!!!! message that pisses everyone off so much.
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Interesting. Do you run Winzip? It does the same thing when you start it up. Unless of course, you pay to buy the Pro version. Or, as I suspect is the case with many users, they have the Pro version of Winzip...but didn't pay for it.NightShade737 had this to say
Probably the things that keep starting on Startup, that and the "UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO!!!!! message that pisses everyone off so much.
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No. The built-in Windows XP .zip comression support suffices for now. I'm thinking about purchasing a license, because it is an awesome piece of software.Dexter had this to say
Interesting. Do you run Winzip? It does the same thing when you start it up. Unless of course, you pay to buy the Pro version. Or, as I suspect is the case with many users, they have the Pro version of Winzip...but didn't pay for it.
Negative. I use Avant Browser, an awesome freeware frontend for Internet Explorer that integrates pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing so I don't have to replace IE in my shell.
Running any Pop-Up Stoppers? Pay for those? Or do you let the nag screen pop up at system start-up?
Nope. And the pop-ups are exactly why, besides the fact that it consumes significant system resources. My folks tried to install it on my P1, and it brought that system to its knees and created a missing .dll error every time it boots. I'm going to have to reinstall Windows, because I can't fix the .dll error in the registry.
How about Zone Alarm, or any other freeware firewall?
That's why RealPlayer sucks. WinAmp is my media player of choice, and its freeware without nags. It also has a hell of a lot more functionality, as it can not only playback every audio format I know of through plugins but also every video format except DVD and .mov, and they're working on DVD. I can also export any audio it can playback to any format I have plugin support for. Right now I've installed LAME VBR .MP3, Ogg Vorbis, .WMA, and .WAV
Real-player has nags too. So does almost any piece of freeware that you run.
That's nice. I also figured out how to disable the system tray icon, but the upgrade message is intolerable. Not everyone needs a fully featured encoder, so why can't they accept that some people want decode only and leave them in peace?
Windows Media Player does not because you PAID for it. It's part of your system... because they bundled it with your Windows OS. You cannot compare Quicktime to WMP in that regard, because one you have paid for whether want it or not.
I have been running Quicktime for years, and have NEVER had a problem disabling the tray icon at system start. The only time I see anything is the nag screen when I launch it. And that went away when I decided to get the Pro version because the features were very well worth doing so.
Honestly, I'm fairly certain that many online media distributors get a cut from Apple for using their format. XviD is freeware, has higher quality, and packs smaller than QuickTime's Sorenson3. If you insist on paying money for your codecs rather than going Open Source, DivX does almost the same thing. Both can be used with any MP4-compliant container. The Xenosaga II trailer is an excellent example of this. Which would you prefer, the 45MB file with awesome video and audio or the 85MB file with crappy video and worse audio?
If Quicktime is so awful, why do so many movie studios, whose business relies on getting high-quality preview out to potential viewers, use it for their online trailers?
I love Mac's, but I hate Apple. I own three Mac's now, and my favorite is the Mac clone. It does everything the others do, only fits in an industry-standard chassis and works with industry-standard components. There's just something I like about the phrase "industry standard". My wallet likes it too.
If Quicktime had been made by a company completely independent of Apple, would you still hate it so much? I think not. I think you, and many others, let your perceptions Apple proprietary hardware colour your opinions of Apple multi-platform software. And that's just silly, because they are 2 separate things.
- No, I use a freeware alternative that supports all the same formats.Interesting. Do you run Winzip? It does the same thing when you start it up. Unless of course, you pay to buy the Pro version. Or, as I suspect is the case with many users, they have the Pro version of Winzip...but didn't pay for it.
- I use Mozilla, no pop-up stopper required.Running any Pop-Up Stoppers? Pay for those? Or do you let the nag screen pop up at system start-up?
- I used to use Kerio Personal Firewall and still do sometimesHow about Zone Alarm, or any other freeware firewall?
- Real does, no other freeware I have has nagging, as that would mean it's not freeware, it's either a trial or shareware.Real-player has nags too. So does almost any piece of freeware that you run.
- I didn't mention WMP. I use Media Player Classic that looks like Windows Media player 6, uses codecs and is entirely free.Windows Media Player does not because you PAID for it. It's part of your system... because they bundled it with your Windows OS. You cannot compare Quicktime to WMP in that regard, because one you have paid for whether want it or not.
- Not if you don't want them, like me, or any of the other many millions who also do not want it.I have been running Quicktime for years, and have NEVER had a problem disabling the tray icon at system start. The only time I see anything is the nag screen when I launch it. And that went away when I decided to get the Pro version because the features were very well worth doing so.
- I'm probably not the only one who has noticed when we are stuck using the Macs at Uni, the only format it will let me export it to is Quicktime MOV. But thats probably just iMovie....If Quicktime is so awful, why do so many movie studios, whose business relies on getting high-quality preview out to potential viewers, use it for their online trailers?
- Most likely. Being apple has nothing to do with it. The reason people hate it so much is because the amount of videos that are saved in this format. Not ones people have made, just trailers and other things, lots of videos in this format mean lots of "UPGRADE NOW!" messages.If Quicktime had been made by a company completely independent of Apple, would you still hate it so much? I think not. I think you, and many others, let your perceptions Apple proprietary hardware colour your opinions of Apple multi-platform software. And that's just silly, because they are 2 separate things.
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To you too.
