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re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 9:07 am Posted by Bob (1340 messages posted) Try this: Start Regedit Go to HKLM,Software,Microsoft,Windows,CurrentVersion,Run Double-click Quick Time Task put semicolon in front of "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime OK Close Regedit On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 6:34 am, Tim wrote: >I have tried everything I can think of to stop Qttask.exe (Quicktime's annoying little >program that loads at startup). I've tried deleting it from my HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run >entry in the registry, as well as tried to find a flag to set in the Quicktime Control >Panel to stop it from loading. However, if I load a Quicktime video, as soon as >I start the computer again, there it is. Does anyone have an end-all solution to >this other than uninstalling Quicktime? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 12:18 pm Posted by Harry B. Turner (1 messages posted) Thanks, Bob. This was an annoyance to me, too. In my machine in which I use Windows XP, to find "qttask.exe" after running regedit, you must first go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE," after which the climb down the tree is exactly the same. On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 9:07 am, Bob wrote: >Try this: > Start Regedit > Go to HKLM,Software,Microsoft,Windows,CurrentVersion,Run > Double-click Quick Time Task >put semicolon in front of >"C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime > OK > Close Regedit > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 7:46 am Posted by Henry Trapp (1 messages posted) What's the best way to handle qttask in WinMe? I tried to close it by Ctrl-Alt-Del before installing or uninstalling, but this causes an error message, a black screen, and an "improper shutdown". On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 9:07 am, Bob wrote: >Try this: > Start Regedit > Go to HKLM,Software,Microsoft,Windows,CurrentVersion,Run > Double-click Quick Time Task >put semicolon in front of >"C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime > OK > Close Regedit > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 9:35 am Posted by Jim (1 messages posted) A great utility for finding all such annoying programs is Autoruns from sysinternals. It is free and written in assembly so it is fast and small. You can download it at http://www.sysinternals.com/files/autoruns.zip. It also works in any version of windows and navigates the registery for you. On Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 7:46 am, Henry Trapp wrote: >What's the best way to handle qttask in WinMe? I tried to close it by Ctrl-Alt-Del >before installing or uninstalling, but this causes an error message, a black screen, >and an "improper shutdown". > > http://www.sysinternals.com/files/autoruns.zip [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 6:43 am Posted by M L (1 messages posted) actually, you can disable this option. if using QT6, go to control panel and double-click the QT icon. Select 'Browser Plug-in' from the drop down list, you should see 'Quick Time system tray icon' option. On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 6:34 am, Tim wrote: >I have tried everything I can think of to stop Qttask.exe (Quicktime's annoying little >program that loads at startup). I've tried deleting it from my HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run >entry in the registry, as well as tried to find a flag to set in the Quicktime Control >Panel to stop it from loading. However, if I load a Quicktime video, as soon as >I start the computer again, there it is. Does anyone have an end-all solution to >this other than uninstalling Quicktime? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 5:38 am Posted by alwayslearning (1 messages posted) Actually M L, this doesn't stop qttask from loading. Just stops the icon from appearing in the sys tray. On Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 6:43 am, M L wrote: >actually, you can disable this option. if using QT6, go to control panel and double-click >the QT icon. Select 'Browser Plug-in' from the drop down list, you should see 'Quick >Time system tray icon' option. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 8:46 pm Posted by Walt Liebkemann (1 messages posted) 1) Do a file search for qttask.exe 2) Rename all instances of qttask.exe to qttask2.exe 3) restart your computer Now qttask can't load, but won't generate an error message. You can still view .mov files just fine. Good luck! On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 6:34 am, Tim wrote: >I have tried everything I can think of to stop Qttask.exe (Quicktime's annoying little >program that loads at startup). I've tried deleting it from my HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run >entry in the registry, as well as tried to find a flag to set in the Quicktime Control >Panel to stop it from loading. However, if I load a Quicktime video, as soon as >I start the computer again, there it is. Does anyone have an end-all solution to >this other than uninstalling Quicktime? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 5:54 am Posted by jake pualty (1 messages posted) that's right on money. additionally, you could just rename it qttask.exe.old i've used this method as well as removing it from the registry with no side effects On Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 8:46 pm, Walt Liebkemann wrote: >1) Do a file search for qttask.exe >2) Rename all instances of qttask.exe to > qttask2.exe >3) restart your computer > >Now qttask can't load, but won't generate an error message. You can still view .mov >files just fine. > >Good luck! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 5:13 am Posted by Vinoko (1 messages posted) >This way works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 8:46 pm, Walt Liebkemann wrote: >1) Do a file search for qttask.exe >2) Rename all instances of qttask.exe to > qttask2.exe >3) restart your computer > >Now qttask can't load, but won't generate an error message. You can still view .mov >files just fine. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 11:23 am Posted by BP (1 messages posted) Jim, Great tip on that little utility. Worked fast and slick - downloaded off your link, installed and ran. Found that little booger right away. Going to go take care of it right now.... Thanks - Great post! On Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 9:35 am, Jim wrote: >A great utility for finding all such annoying programs is Autoruns from sysinternals. >It is free and written in assembly so it is fast and small. You can download it at >http://www.sysinternals.com/files/autoruns.zip. It also works in any version of windows >and navigates the registery for you. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Monday, January 12, 2004 at 12:18 pm Posted by Bill (1 messages posted) Actually, I just ran a search for 'qttask' (in Win2000), found it in the C:\Programs\Quicktime folder and deleted it, and it still hasn't come up on reboot even after using the movie player. There did use to be an option to turn the taskbar icon on or off, but I haven't seen it in this latest version. It pisses me off when any program just inserts itself all over your computer without asking! On Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 5:13 am, Vinoko wrote: >This way works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 6:45 am Posted by Paul (2 messages posted) Why not disable qttask.exe by going to Start/Run/ enter msconfig go to Startup and uncheck the program? On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 12:18 pm, Bill wrote: >Actually, I just ran a search for 'qttask' (in Win2000), found it in the C:\Programs\Quicktime >folder and deleted it, and it still hasn't come up on reboot even after using the >movie player. >There did use to be an option to turn the taskbar icon on or off, but I haven't seen >it in this latest version. >It pisses me off when any program just inserts itself all over your computer without >asking! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 11:08 am Posted by Herbz (1 messages posted) Because if it was that simple it would be on ANNOYANCES.org, emphasis on annoyances. On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 6:45 am, Paul wrote: >Why not disable qttask.exe by going to Start/Run/ enter msconfig go to Startup and >uncheck the program? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] delete qttask to remove for good Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 6:35 pm Posted by markbnj (1 messages posted) Well Paul, because QTTASK.exe AUTOmatically re-adds itself to the registry hive and says RESTART, NO MATTER what. that's why you have to a) kill the current qttask.exe process and b) renanme or delete the qttask.exe file (do a search on it) PS: qttask is ONLY used for the system tray... nothing else! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: delete qttask to remove for good Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 1:31 pm Posted by Paul (2 messages posted) Thanks for the (civil) response! I am, however, guilty of not noticing the Win2000 part of the msgs. I apologize! That's perhaps why it was loading in start-up, but the 'icon' was not in my system tray -- also, my qttask is found in /windows/system -- not in the location others have mentioned. Paul. On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 6:35 pm, markbnj wrote: >Well Paul, because QTTASK.exe > >AUTOmatically re-adds itself to the registry hive and says RESTART, NO MATTER what. > that's why you have to >a) kill the current qttask.exe process and >b) renanme or delete the qttask.exe file (do a search on it) > >PS: qttask is ONLY used for the system tray... nothing else! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Saturday, January 31, 2004 at 9:38 pm Posted by Kgregg (1 messages posted) Try deleting the file, as it really does nothing, or simply renaming it. But first......very important......stop it from running through your task manager FIRST, as it will "re-create" itself if you don't do this first! Then when you reboot after deleting or renaming it it should be gone! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 6:12 pm Posted by iQd (1 messages posted) Thanx for everyone's advice; I applied ALL three methods, and life is good now. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 2:39 am Posted by Cherry (2 messages posted) Just to mention this does not work. I have done this repeatedly ... Each time I reboot this edited entry disappears ... Each time I listen via quick time the qttask.exe places itself in startup ... I have not found how to stop this and I detest this with a passion ... I uninstalled quicktime out of my hatred for this but only to find that in order to hear things on web pages it seems I must have quicktime ... With my Windows98 I uninstalled quicktime and my Windows Media Player was used by default and it did not place such autostart entries in my startup menu and I am trying to figure out how to make this happen with XP ... If I can ever figure this out I will never use quicktime again because I do not like anything that 'tells me what to do' on my computer :o) Cherry On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 12:18 pm, Harry B. Turner wrote: >Thanks, Bob. This was an annoyance to me, too. >In my machine in which I use Windows XP, to find "qttask.exe" after running regedit, >you must first go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE," after which the climb down the tree is >exactly the same. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 2:58 am Posted by Cherry (2 messages posted) This One Works ... File search is for qttask.exe Which my XP did not locate and I detest XP search because it never finds my stuff and I have to go manually find everything but that is another gripe lol I manually went over to C:\Program Files\QuickTime\ and inside this directory I did find qttask.exe and I renamed it to qttask2.exe ... I rebooted system and went to my website where I have a file to use to try this out and I heard the file and qttask.exe did not place itself into my start menu ... Now I have a same problem with realsched so I will now begin seeking out answers for this so that it will stop placing itself into my start menu :o) Cherry On Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 8:46 pm, Walt Liebkemann wrote: >1) Do a file search for qttask.exe >2) Rename all instances of qttask.exe to > qttask2.exe >3) restart your computer > >Now qttask can't load, but won't generate an error message. You can still view .mov >files just fine. > >Good luck! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 1:00 pm Posted by DeathValley69 (1 messages posted) What i did was to download and install the latest version of Quicktime (you can get it at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). Then, reboot and do the full uninstall. That should remove the qttask.exe file and the tray icon. Hope this can help you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] qttask error Saturday, April 16, 2005 at 4:04 pm Posted by Kay (1 messages posted) I'm having trouble with my computer - when I turn it on - I get a message that reads "qttask has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL - Qttask with close" Then it closes and I get another message that reads :lwtest has caused an error in DINPUT.DLL - Lwtest will now close" Does anyone know what's going on with this - my display has changed to 16 bit color and I can't change it back? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 4:24 am Posted by Lancashirelad (1 messages posted) http://www.sysinternals.com/files/autoruns.zip. when i download this (it looked excellent from the description, thanks Jim) it puts it into Lotus Smart Suite. On opening it, all i get is a text page with the letters PK on it. Help please........(Windows 98) On Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 9:35 am, Jim wrote: >A great utility for finding all such annoying programs is Autoruns from sysinternals. >It is free and written in assembly so it is fast and small. You can download it at >http://www.sysinternals.com/files/autoruns.zip. It also works in any version of windows >and navigates the registery for you. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 3:13 pm Posted by Larry (1 messages posted) Actually, unclicking this icon does not stop qttask from loading on my Win2000 machine. On Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 6:43 am, M L wrote: >actually, you can disable this option. if using QT6, go to control panel and double-click >the QT icon. Select 'Browser Plug-in' from the drop down list, you should see 'Quick >Time system tray icon' option. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 11:39 pm Posted by a (1 messages posted) The way that worked for me was to use my "Webroot Spysweeper" program, that features a selection that enables the user to disable any startup program that you desire. Spysweeper is meant to stop adware and spyware that also runs on startup, similar to quicktime, and that's why it works. It costs a bit of money but it's well worth it! On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 6:34 am, Tim wrote: >I have tried everything I can think of to stop Qttask.exe (Quicktime's annoying little >program that loads at startup). I've tried deleting it from my HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run >entry in the registry, as well as tried to find a flag to set in the Quicktime Control >Panel to stop it from loading. However, if I load a Quicktime video, as soon as >I start the computer again, there it is. Does anyone have an end-all solution to >this other than uninstalling Quicktime? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 7:48 pm Posted by Bonnie (1 messages posted) Hi Harry. I'm also running Windows XP and having trouble removing Quicktime from startup. I tried looking in the registry for "HKLM" under the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" folder, but it's not there. I do have a software folder named "Apple Computer, Inc." and this contains a "Quicktime" folder, but I still can't seem to find the "qttask.exe" file. Any suggestions? On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 12:18 pm, Harry B. Turner wrote: >Thanks, Bob. This was an annoyance to me, too. >In my machine in which I use Windows XP, to find "qttask.exe" after running regedit, >you must first go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE," after which the climb down the tree is >exactly the same. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 9:09 am Posted by tammy (1 messages posted) did you try to remove it from your startup program? push the start button then click on run, then push ok. click on the startup tab and unclick what you don't want to start running anytime it feels like it. for instance everytime i turned on my computer, even if i wasn't online, limewire would constantly try to load On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 9:07 am, Bob wrote: >Try this: > Start Regedit > Go to HKLM,Software,Microsoft,Windows,CurrentVersion,Run > Double-click Quick Time Task >put semicolon in front of >"C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime > OK > Close Regedit > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] thank you Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 9:16 am Posted by James (1 messages posted) Thanks for your help! qttask.exe was slowing down startup and shutdown, and renaming it really helped. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 6:10 am Posted by A.A. Roxx (1 messages posted) In XP Pro It's found at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\QuickTime Task\command ================================= On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 6:34 am, Tim wrote: >I have tried everything I can think of to stop Qttask.exe (Quicktime's annoying little >program that loads at startup). I've tried deleting it from my HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run >entry in the registry, as well as tried to find a flag to set in the Quicktime Control >Panel to stop it from loading. However, if I load a Quicktime video, as soon as >I start the computer again, there it is. Does anyone have an end-all solution to >this other than uninstalling Quicktime? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 10:22 pm Posted by Brian Tristam Williams (1 messages posted) Try Spybot Search & Destroy. It has a system settings protection feature that lets you permanently prevent certain programs from modifying the registry. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 6:06 pm Posted by Henry (2 messages posted) On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 6:34 am, Tim wrote: >I have tried everything I can think of to stop Qttask.exe (Quicktime's annoying little >program that loads at startup). I've tried deleting it from my HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run >entry in the registry, as well as tried to find a flag to set in the Quicktime Control >Panel to stop it from loading. However, if I load a Quicktime video, as soon as >I start the computer again, there it is. Does anyone have an end-all solution to >this other than uninstalling Quicktime? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 6:11 pm Posted by Henry (2 messages posted) Stop Quicktime loading at startup once and for all. I have tried removing from registry and mscofig but nothing worked. The following worked for me; Rename the following files: QTPlugin.ocx to QTPluginXX.ocx qttaskXX.exe to xqttaskXX.exe The files are at Windows/system (For WinME) The usesless qucktime icon never appeared again So far no problems. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 12:35 pm Posted by Tim (1 messages posted) No you idiots... that just removes the icon. Here's how you stop it: Start > Run > msconfig > ok > Startup > and uncheck qqtask.exe. Viola. On Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 6:11 pm, Henry wrote: >Stop Quicktime loading at startup once and for all. >I have tried removing from registry and mscofig but >nothing worked. The following worked for me; >Rename the following files: >QTPlugin.ocx to QTPluginXX.ocx >qttaskXX.exe to xqttaskXX.exe >The files are at Windows/system (For WinME) >The usesless qucktime icon never appeared again >So far no problems. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Monday, February 19, 2007 at 5:20 am Posted by Sumit (1 messages posted) Regarding win xp or windows me or win 2000 the most simple way to remove qttask from startup is go to quicktime folder and rename qttask.exe to qttask.exe.old (change file extention) and voila u r done. No more qttask for you. Thanx On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 12:18 pm, Harry B. Turner wrote: >Thanks, Bob. This was an annoyance to me, too. >In my machine in which I use Windows XP, to find "qttask.exe" after running regedit, >you must first go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE," after which the climb down the tree is >exactly the same. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 12:47 am Posted by sunny_az (1 messages posted) 1st off, viola is french for violation. 2nd of all, anything short of changing the exe(makes it useless) &/or removing the entire program(easier said than done, the start-up service returns if reg isn't cleared completely) does NOT make the start-up service desist. It will re-appear after you've run the program. Everytime. F Apple and their I-chit. So, who were you calling an idiot? On Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 12:35 pm, Tim wrote: >No you idiots... that just removes the icon. Here's how you stop it: > >Start > Run > msconfig > ok > Startup > and uncheck qqtask.exe. Viola. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 1:32 pm Posted by Anthony (1 messages posted) I have a pretty foolproof method that takes care of everything. Right click on the file and open it with notepad. Delete ALL of the code. Problem solved. It doesn't matter if it gets turned on for restart or anything. The file is still there, the name is the same, it just doesn't do anything. There is no more chance of it doing anything, unless, of course, you re-install Quicktime. If so, just repeat. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Monday, September 17, 2007 at 4:36 pm Posted by Sarah Nally (1 messages posted) Hi I have the same error message come up - Qttask has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL. Qttask will now close. The mouse is frozen and I can't seem to get past this error message into the computer. Can anyone help me? This is an old PC with Windows ME edition. I just want to clean it up and retrieve my photos of it and then possibly sell it. On Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 1:32 pm, Anthony wrote: >I have a pretty foolproof method that takes care of everything. Right click on the >file and open it with notepad. Delete ALL of the code. Problem solved. It doesn't >matter if it gets turned on for restart or anything. The file is still there, the >name is the same, it just doesn't do anything. There is no more chance of it doing >anything, unless, of course, you re-install Quicktime. If so, just repeat. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Monday, October 8, 2007 at 5:23 pm Posted by CeltLass (1 messages posted) Sunny_az, you're a little harsh, and also quite incorrect. (And yes, I know, delayed reaction, but I didn't need this discussion until the latest install.) From MSN Encarta Dictionary (and a huge number of other sources): voi·là [ vwaa l ] interjection Definition: there you are: used to bring somebody's attention to something, especially in order to elicit appreciation or approval [Mid-18th century. < French< voi "see!" + là "there"] (And viola is a musical instrument.) But I digress...actual reason for writing is that many of the methods mentioned on this page don't work with the latest version of QT. I had to dig, and found qttask.exe under HKLM/SOFTWARE/Apple Computer, Inc.\Quick Time\ActiveX -- at which point adjustments can be made. On Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 12:47 am, sunny_az wrote: >1st off, viola is french for violation. >2nd of all, anything short of changing the exe(makes it useless) &/or removing the >entire program(easier said than done, the start-up service returns if reg isn't cleared >completely) does NOT make the start-up service desist. It will re-appear after you've >run the program. Everytime. F Apple and their I-chit. > >So, who were you calling an idiot? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to stop qttask from loading in Win2000 Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 7:54 am Posted by gadrin (15 messages posted) So far I just compiled an EXE that exits immediately and replaced QTTASK.EXE with it. I renamed the new EXE as QTTASK.EXE and I kept a copy of the original QTTASK.exe around just in case. Started QT yesterday and exited it. 2 Reboots later and no icon in the task bar. There might be free compilers for free languages available on the web, just google for them. Build a "empty" exe that does nothing but exit right away and it might help. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum