In news:%2373UjNw%23FHA.2520@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
zachd [ms] <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> "lampshade" <lampshade@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:49050075-ECF3-4C27-B3E6-DF5ADA8B16A6@microsoft.com...
>> So far none of these things work. I have started a forum
>> question on the quicktime webstie. Any other ideas would be
>> appreciated.
>
> As previously suggested, if QuickTime or iTunes is stopping you from
> changing this and you are unable to disable them, you will have to
> remove their player in order to affect the change.
>
> -Zach
And did you try the MSCONFIG?
Let's see what we got here... I do not use iTunes or QuickTime - when I want
that I get the plug-in with a third party application all nice and free like
that. Well, not free but it could be except I pay for the application.
Now instead of trying the MSCONFIG take a quick trip here:
Pesky Startup Apps:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/startupapps.html
There's a tiny tool and some additional information - go ahead and read
through it and download the tool from the link. It's very handy to keep
around and small enough to make it a requirement to any IT pro's toolbox.
(Let's hope that we don't need to get deeper into it with AutoRuns or
anything so cross your fingers.)
Find out what's starting and check names for anything you don't recognize.
If you see anything in there that you don't need - well, now's a good time
to kill it off. You might as well save some time and get back some
resources.
Now you said XP SP2 so...
Start
Run
Type "services.msc" without the quotes
Press Enter
Look for anything Apple, Mac, iTunes, QuickTime
If you see anything, right click on it, select properties, click to stop it
and then set it to disabled or to manual.
Reboot - just for the heck of it...
You already know how to reset the program access in the control panel so do
that. Then open WMP and go ahead and set it for all file types listed (use
the check all button I suppose.)
Double click on a file, any media file that's covered by WMP, and see if it
opens with WMP now or not? If it doesn't then post back or try actually
checking the file associations.
To do that (and this is a lot of fun I tell you) once again start, run, and
then this time type "control folders" without the quotes. Click on the file
types tab, scroll to (say) MP3, highlight it, click change, select WMP or
click browse and point it to the C:\Program Files\Windows Media
Player\wmplayer.exe application executable, and click okay a couple of
times. Now try to open an MP3 and see if it opens in WMP.
Please do take a moment (or ten) of your time to rant at the Apple folks for
this sort of mistreatment as has been suggested. After all, they stomp over
here to rant about IE for the Mac all the time. It's not just a proprietary
thing but rather a failure of comprehension of end-user rights when they
start stomping around and making it difficult to change file associations
and defaults and it's even less ethical when there's absolutely no
justification for having done so in the first place. To have called such a
practice evil is an understatement and if the offender had been Microsoft
(see Windows XP N for more information on that and don't even ask my
personal opinions on the whole mess) the world would be up in arms.
Anyhow, if that doesn't work, well, buggered if I know... We can take a look
at an autoruns log off-list or in a forum if you'd like (this isn't the
place to post large messages like that really) if need be but don't skip any
of the steps above and it _should_ work just fine. If you have problems with
any of the steps do not hesitate to ask before proceeding. Someone will help
you out.
--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes