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    iTunes won't work without quicktime... I hate apple :(

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Danja, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. Danja

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    I've installed the 64 bit edition of itunes on my x64 home premium and it works fine at first. However, as soon as I unistall (with its own uninstaller) the quicktime bloatware that comes with it, DEP automatically closes it as soon as it runs. Has anyone ever encountered this?
     
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    I don't use iTunes or Quicktime but a Quicktime alternate. If you can manage to delete both perhaps you can install the alternate and then iTunes without Quicktime.
     
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    iTunes requires QT to run. Personally I don't mind it though; it works great as the default media player for web browsers; very lightweight and fast.
     
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    Quicktime may be lightweight but it insists on running on start-up and will reapply itself if you disable QT start-up. For what? I hate that.
     
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    Exactly. I already had the quicktime alternative AND the quicktime plugin to media player classic and itunes doesn't like either of them. Argh. Does anyone know any way to make quicktime not run on startup?
     
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    Nope I don't know a way to disable that. It doesn't bother me too much though, I'm ok with right click > quit.
     
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    i don't use itunes and have no trouble with using winamp with my nano. drag and drop works fine for me.
    itunes is ok but it does seem to take over with all that sync junk and drm.
     
    hoggie, Jul 11, 2008
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    I think that letting QT or IT loose on your prized PC is like throwing your new Puppy dog into the lions den. - It's going to get savaged !

    Just another half dozen useless tasks for your PC to be running every time you boot up. There should be a law against it.
     
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    Yes. Uninstall iTunes and Quicktime and use other stuff. MediaMonkey is a nice media player. There are plenty of others... winamp, etc.

    If you insist on using iTunes, I was able to disable (back when I used iTunes) the startup processes in msconfig... although these days I usually use Windows Defender's Software Explorer to disable such startup processes. qttask and iTunesHelper can both be disabled there and iTunes still runs fine (although I never tried it on 64-bit). You can also go into services.msc and disable iPodService and AppleMobileDeviceService. However, they'll all come back when you update iTunes to a newer version. That's why I don't keep iTunes installed on my machine anymore.

    But anyway while you don't need to run quicktime on startup to use iTunes, you do need quicktime installed, because iTunes uses it to play media files, I think. I imagine that's why DEP shut the process down... it was probably trying to use a library that's no longer installed. Without DEP it would probably just crash instead.
     
    swarmer, Jul 11, 2008
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