# Help me get Quicktime out of my System Tray **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 2, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-quicktime-out-of-my-system-tray/139924 "2002-12-02T08:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-quicktime-out-of-my-system-tray/139924/1 "2002-12-02T08:13:26Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-quicktime-out-of-my-system-tray/139924/2 "2002-12-02T08:44:08Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-quicktime-out-of-my-system-tray/139924/3 "2002-12-02T10:40:25Z")
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] ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-quicktime-out-of-my-system-tray/139924/4 "2002-12-02T10:45:18Z")
We did this [in _The BBQ Pit_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=146467) a few days ago. I’ve found a very, very good freeware program: [Reg Cleaner](http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml), 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. ---
**Author:** ![mrcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-quicktime-out-of-my-system-tray/139924/5 "2002-12-02T10:55:16Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-quicktime-out-of-my-system-tray/139924/6 "2002-12-02T13:58:07Z")
**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.