# Pointless mini-rant: I hate QuickTime **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 26, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984 "2002-11-26T22:41:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/21 "2002-11-28T18:33:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kirkland1244 \* > It should only ask you the first time you start QuickTime after restarting your computer. And unless you have a laptop, there’s very little reason to restart modern computers on a regular basis anymore. Yeah… I love giving the power company money and having fans constantly running in the background. Do you leave your lights on in vacant rooms of your home? > [@](#): > > Use for what? By default, QuickTime only takes control of “Macintosh” files like .MOV files and PICT files. If memory serves, last time I used Quicktime it kindly associated itself with MPG, MPEG and AVI as well. > [@](#): > > If what is typical Apple behavior? The “Do You Want to Upgrade to Pro” thing? Ummm… that’s like something that only QuickTime does on a Mac, at least in terms of Apple software. There was a periodic “reminder” to upgrade to Quicktime Pro with my Win98 machine something like every other time I used it. No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/22 "2002-11-28T18:56:39Z")
From that link Iposted: > [@](#): > > QuickTime: It’s a video player, that much I do know, but why is it necessary to load this at start-up? Maybe my eyesight is going or something, but I don’t remember seeing any videos during the boot sequence. (It turns out the app that was loading was to check that .mov files were still associated with the Quicktime player, and forcibly change them back if you’d had the audacity to select yourself another video player). What made me mad is that once I unchecked it under msconfig - that stinkin’ program should not start up at boot anymore. But it persisted, and suceeded in making me very mad at it. And the nag boxes to upgrade - grrr. Ok, I’ll stop bitching about it now. If there was an alternative, I’d switch in a minute. QT sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/23 "2002-11-28T21:17:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bernse \* > \*\*Yeah… I love giving the power company money and having fans constantly running in the background. Do you leave your lights on in vacant rooms of your home? I don’t use my Windows computer anymore, but my iMac, when it goes to sleep, goes fully to sleep. No fans, no power for the screen, only using a bit of electricity to keep the memory contents preserved and to monitor for mouse or keyboard activity for “wake up.” If you PC can’t do that, that’s a flaw of your machine. I also haven’t noticed an increase in my electrical bill. Kirk ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/24 "2002-11-28T21:21:45Z")
Heh. iMac. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/25 "2002-11-28T21:47:30Z")
Windows XP does the same thing in standby mode. Everything shuts down, as far as my eyes and ears can tell. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/26 "2002-11-28T21:52:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kirkland1244 \* > \*\*I don’t use my Windows computer anymore, but my iMac, when it goes to sleep, goes fully to sleep. No fans, no power for the screen, only using a bit of electricity to keep the memory contents preserved and to monitor for mouse or keyboard activity for “wake up.” If you PC can’t do that, that’s a flaw of your machine. > > Kirk \*\* Many fans case are hardwired through the power supply. My PCs CPU (a 1.2 Ghz Athlon) runs quite warm, I believe more so than a Power PC. Hence, I wouldn’t even _want_ the CPU fan to turn off, even in its sleep (even though it might). And its not a “flaw”… its by design… much as a 1 button mouse on a Mac is by “design”. If it powers down so completely when it “sleeps” why don’t you just turn it off? Whats the difference? Is it so things stay in memory? > [@](#): > > I also haven’t noticed an increase in my electrical bill. I’m sure you haven’t. I wouldn’t notice a .50c or a dollar every month either… but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/27 "2002-11-29T01:47:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PhiloVance \* > \*\*😕 😕 😕 > > Did you perhaps mean _::sucks::_? \*\* No I meant blows. You’ve never heard that as a synonym of “sucks?” ---
**Author:** ![Latino\_Yoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Latino\_Yoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latino_Yoshi)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984/28 "2002-11-30T07:22:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bernse \* > **If it powers down so completely when it “sleeps” why don’t you just turn it off? Whats the difference? Is it so things stay in memory?** “Sleep” is a great thing. Sleep means my original iMac is completely silent whilst I sleep. And since my desk is adjacent to my dorm room bed, and since I’ve place the mouse to my Indigo iMac conviently within arms reach of my bed, “sleep” also means that I can “wake up” my computer within 2 seconds, be on the internet in 5 seconds, and check out what the temperature is outside on [weather.com](http://weather.com) within 10 seconds, all while bremaining nicely cuddled underneath my sheets. 🙂 (Of couse being able to do this has had terrible consequenses on my morning class attendance) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-mini-rant-i-hate-quicktime/138984.md?page=1)