Help me get Quicktime out of my System Tray

Factual Questions
1

OK, I upgraded to the new version of Quicktime when prompted by the software. All is great, and the new version is spiffy enough, though I only ever use it to play .mov files.

The annoying thing is that it stuck some damn thing into my system Tray and it loads at startup. I can’t figure out how to get it out of there. I can kill it when I’m booted up, but thats a pain.

I checked my start up folder and the “startup and recovery” tab in the system window from the control panel. The Quicktime software doesn’t seem to have a property choice to unselect this that I can find.

I’m using Windows 2000 and I’m fairly new at it, so I could be missing something obvious. short of uninstalling this, how can I get rid of that thing running in the background at start up?

2

Edit your registry. Run regedit.exe, then open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

In there will be an entry for Quicktime. Delete it. I can’t tell you exactly what it’s called, since I’ve already deleted it, but it’s unambiguously named.

Done

3

Cool, thanks.

Think that got it.

[slight self-hijack]
I also deleted something called Etraffic thats is associated with JavaRun.exe in a TopMoxie folder. I think it got installed when I installed the Java Runtime Environment when prompted by some webpage that required it. Any reason this would be a bad thing?
[/slight self-hijack]

4

We did this in The BBQ Pit a few days ago.

I’ve found a very, very good freeware program: Reg Cleaner, which does a lot of good things, and gives you a lot more controll, than using reg.edit. Among other things, it does a backup of what you’ve done, in case you goof something up in the registry.

5

wise council
if you ever open regedit…DO A BACKUP!
and those filenames you are looking for have the craziest titles
i had to get mcafee to send me their so i could get rid of every startup file in the registry after went through the uninstall there were still some links remaining giving signals about missing files.
i went over to norton 2003

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mrcrow, reg cleaner finds orphaned files, invalid entries, checks the startup list in the registry and much more. I know I’m on the verge of spamming here. But it’s freeware, and I have no connection whatsoever with the company that makes it. I just found that it helped me a lot, while doing maintenence on the 'puter.