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Jetsfan · 09-07-2008, 06:48 PM

Periodically during the last three years my computer would freeze, goto a bluescreen and re-start. Recently, I had my computer repaired and had Norton Anti-Virus installed. In the last to weeks my computer has freezed, gone to bluescreen and re-started three times. When I checked "History" on Norton I noticed a program called qttime.exe was running just as this error occured. I Googled it and found the following...

Apple's Quicktime Plug-In for your browser. it allows you to quickly view .MOV movies from inside of a web page. It is a component of the Quicktime Player Package.

This is NOT the browser plug-in, and it is NOT required to play Quicktime files at all! It's basically a shortcut that takes two megs of ram. Remove it!.

You can prevent it from starting with msconfig. Go to Run... type msconfig & under startup uncheck qttask. on next restart and prompting, tell msconfig NOT to come up after reboot.

I did this and it worked...however...

You can uncheck it in MSCONFIG but it will return once QuickTime runs agian. To stop this, rename qttask.exe to something like qttask_old.exe and it will never come back in MSCONFIG.

it came back once I use Quicktime or iTunes. The people on the site say I should...

If you remove it from the registry in HKLM Software Microsoft Windows Current Version Run, it will come back after another quicktime video is loaded. instead, navigate through that path, find the "Quickttime Task" entry, double-click it, and before the value "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime, add a SEMICOLON. This will keep it from starting up. It may not be able to be removed permanently, but you can render it useless.

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shared Tools/MSConfig/Startupreg/qttask Delete the whole key. Also delete string in RUN key as mentioned numerous times. I did this a couple of days ago and it has not regenerated itself like it used to. Stopping this task from running using the "proper" method of unchecking it in QT prefs did not work.

Has anyone here sucessfully done this and it worked? THANKS!

09-07-2008, 06:48 PM	#1
Jetsfan Account Removed @ User's Request Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Calgary Exp:	Remove qttime.exe Periodically during the last three years my computer would freeze, goto a bluescreen and re-start. Recently, I had my computer repaired and had Norton Anti-Virus installed. In the last to weeks my computer has freezed, gone to bluescreen and re-started three times. When I checked "History" on Norton I noticed a program called qttime.exe was running just as this error occured. I Googled it and found the following... Apple's Quicktime Plug-In for your browser. it allows you to quickly view .MOV movies from inside of a web page. It is a component of the Quicktime Player Package. This is NOT the browser plug-in, and it is NOT required to play Quicktime files at all! It's basically a shortcut that takes two megs of ram. Remove it!. You can prevent it from starting with msconfig. Go to Run... type msconfig & under startup uncheck qttask. on next restart and prompting, tell msconfig NOT to come up after reboot. I did this and it worked...however... You can uncheck it in MSCONFIG but it will return once QuickTime runs agian. To stop this, rename qttask.exe to something like qttask_old.exe and it will never come back in MSCONFIG. it came back once I use Quicktime or iTunes. The people on the site say I should... If you remove it from the registry in HKLM Software Microsoft Windows Current Version Run, it will come back after another quicktime video is loaded. instead, navigate through that path, find the "Quickttime Task" entry, double-click it, and before the value "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime, add a SEMICOLON. This will keep it from starting up. It may not be able to be removed permanently, but you can render it useless. HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shared Tools/MSConfig/Startupreg/qttask Delete the whole key. Also delete string in RUN key as mentioned numerous times. I did this a couple of days ago and it has not regenerated itself like it used to. Stopping this task from running using the "proper" method of unchecking it in QT prefs did not work. Has anyone here sucessfully done this and it worked? THANKS!