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re: the Fix for: qttask.exe -atboottime
Friday, December 26, 2003 at 9:03 pm
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Posted by jschulman (5 messages posted)

got same message. went to registry, tried to do as told (even thought of placing semicolon in front of command, so i wouldn't lose it altogether, but when i got to Run (after following the rest of the tree, there was no reference to qttask at all!. I have no idea where it went! restarted my computer, and the error message went away. what do i do if it comes back?

On Friday, December 26, 2003 at 12:26 pm, ZDM wrote:

>I realize this is an old post but many people seem to not understand that even by 
>disabling qttask via QuickTime it still runs in the back ground for a bit at boot 
>time or rather "-atboottime" as the switch is.
>
>Here is how to get rid of it all together (requires regedit):
>
>1) back up your registry before attempting this.
>2) browse to HKey_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>3) find the entry for qttask and delete it
>4) exit regedit and reboot
>






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the Fix for: qttask.exe -atboottime (ZDM: Friday, December 26, 2003 at 12:26 pm)


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