Kodak Quick Time Player has taken over...

[Mach2]

Windows XP Home OS.

Last week I bought a Kodak CX4300 Digital Camera. I loaded the Kodak software and part of this installation is a Kodak program called Quick Time Player. Now when I click on mpg's most of the time this Quick Time Player displays it, but sometimes the Windows XP Media Player plays it. I prefer the Media Player program because the Kodak Quick Time doesn't have the varied selections that Media Player does.

I just went to Add/Remove Programs and there's a QuickTime icon, I wonder if removing QuickTime from here will mess anything up? TIA.

[killer_teddy]

You could do that but it MIGHT mess up your kodak thingy just go into media player then tools-options-formats sort it out to how you like it then in the future when quick time complains never let it associate "certain files" with itself again. Dont like Quick time myself but cant live without it.:t

[tantone]

It's a good rule of thumb to choose "custom" whenever installing anything so that you can see what the program is trying to do. In QuickTime's case, you're able to turn off the file associations before they're set. If you aren't sure about some of the options in the custom mode, just choose the default.

[Mach2]

:) Went to Start>Programs>QuickTime>Uninstall QuickTime. It says "Removing QuickTime System extensions can cause applications to malfunction. Click Uninstall to remove the applications that came with QuickTime. Click Uninstall Everything to remove the system extensions as well (not recommenced)."

Sound like Clicking Uninstall, and not Uninstall Everyting, is what I'm looking for huh?

tatone, I forget to select Custom when installing items like this. That won't happen again, thanks for reminding me. I did that when I installed XP Office Pro and saw what is on the CD to install, and just selected Excel and Word. I should've remembered that.

[paul0660]

you dont need to uninstall it. Right click the quicktime icon in your tray, select quicktime preferences, uncheck the top 3 boxes, select file type associations from the pull down menu, and uncheck everything. Thereafter, quicktime will only be used to play a file if you rightclick the file and select open with..........and then select quicktime.

windows mediaplayer 9 is as good as quicktime (it should be, it pretty much copies it), but some files, and I guess your Kodak stuff, require it.

[Mach2]

paul0660, I already selected Uninstall. QuickTime isn't in Start>Programs>QuickTime> anymore, but when I clicked on a video, it still came up. I went into Windows Update and installed Windows Media 9 and now all video's use the Windows Media 9. I shoulda waited till I read your replay, but had already done the Uninstall deal.

I shoulda selected Custom when I installed the Kodak software for the digital camera, but.................didn't think of it. Thanks.

[paul0660]

yw mach. Most programs have a way of customizing after install.

Its a bit confusing that Quicktime still came up after you uninstalled it.......maybe you did not reboot afterwards (always a good idea after installing/uninstalling. Installing Mediaplayer just did what Quicktime originally did.......made itself the default player.

So the kodak will work with Mediaplayer also? If so, cool, you would only need Quicktime to play something with a .mov filename, and those are rare.

[Mach2]

That's something else I didn't do, reboot after removing QuickTime. Rebooting after installing/uninstalling something will be done in the future.

Thanks for the help.