# downloading quicktime screws up windows media player.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 19, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloading-quicktime-screws-up-windows-media-player/196125 "2003-08-19T03:47:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![biker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce7236/32.png) [@biker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biker)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloading-quicktime-screws-up-windows-media-player/196125/1 "2003-08-19T03:47:38Z")

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i need to download quicktime to view a clients online product movie. everytime i have tried to download quicktime in the past it has screwed up windows media player.

it takes over some of the operations of wmp and screws up a lot of the sound capability of my computer.

my program is xp and i run ie. i am told there are different methods of downloading quicktime but i never see that when downloading. i just want quicktime for the movie, nothing else.

is there an answer here?

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**Author:** ![transitionality](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@transitionality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/transitionality)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloading-quicktime-screws-up-windows-media-player/196125/2 "2003-08-19T04:14:16Z")

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[Media Player Classic](http://www.divx-digest.com/software/media_player_classic.html) plays Quicktime.

The official site appears to be down but I linked to a meta-mirror that links to multiple mirrors.

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**Author:** ![jongri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@jongri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jongri)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloading-quicktime-screws-up-windows-media-player/196125/3 "2003-08-19T14:32:57Z")

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While installing QT for Windows, you should be able to select file type associations with the player. Uncheck all of them. This way you can right click the QT file and select “Open with:” and then browse to the QT exe file.

That should keep it from screwing with Media Player.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloading-quicktime-screws-up-windows-media-player/196125/4 "2003-08-19T15:04:35Z")

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I have also always had problems with QT so I just don’t install it any more.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloading-quicktime-screws-up-windows-media-player/196125/5 "2003-08-19T21:05:01Z")

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> \*Originally posted by sailor \*  
> \*\*I have also always had problems with QT so I just don’t install it any more. \*\*

Whenever I open a QT movie, QT will turn itself back on in my Start Up folder.