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I recently watched a Quick Time (QT) CD ROM movie, and since I did not have QT installed, it asked, I agreed, and it installed itself on my system.
Now I can't get rid of it. There are QT files everywhere, even after I "uninstalled" it at control panel > add/remove programs. The main thing I want, is to get rid of the browser pluggin. I want WindowsMedia back as my default.
Thanks
You can use Windows Media Player itself to reclaim all the filetypes that it handles by default. That might be better than an uninstall, because an uninstall may still not reassociate WMP with all the file types you want it to handle. And who knows, some day you may need to call on QT once again, and you'll still have it.
1. Open WMP by finding it from the START button.
2. Then look under "VIEW > OPTIONS"
3. Click the "Formats" tab.
4. In the resulting window pick which filetypes
you want WMP to handle...or just click on
"Select All"
A second approach to changing which program handles a filetype
(this works for any filetype, not just media files)
1. In My Computer, choose the View menu
2. Click Folder Options.
3. Click the File Types tab.
4. In the list of file types, click the one you want to change.
5. Click Edit.
6. In Actions, click Open
7. Click Edit
8. In "Application used to perform action",
enter the program you want to use to open files
that have this extension
8. Then click OK.
And last, you can uninstall a program this way.
But as I said, this may not return the default
to WMP.
START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL1. Click on "Add/Remove Programs"
2. Select the program to remove from the list
3. Click on the Add/Remove Button
1. Open WMP by finding it from the START button.
2. Then look under View > Plug-Ins > Options
3. Click the "File Types" tab.
4. In the resulting window pick which filetypes
you want WMP to handle...or just click on
"Select All"
