quate.net— Get rid of the background processes that are added when iTunes installs... Including that Quicktime task tray program. Stop these programs from launching upon startup!
Mar 4, 2006View in Crawl 4
Exactly. The article looks like a poor man's solution. Has the writer ever tried to stop the iPod service from Windows' Services? That's what I do, as well as disabling Quicktime's auto startup as suggested in the parent comment. Works like a charm.
The original Startup Control Panel 2.8 is by Mike Lin, and can be found at www.mlin.netOn fast machines, I prefer autoruns, which shows you absolutely everything that runs at startup: <a class="user" href="http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html">http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html</a>As for the ipodhelper, all it does is bring up itunes when you connect your ipod. (so it can be sync'd immediately) It only takes 1.4MB memory and it's pretty useful so I leave it on.The quicktime tray icon however is truly useless.
illynovaMar 4, 2006
Start -> run -> 'msconfig'Go to start up. Uncheck quicktime. Done.
sendmoney2meMar 4, 2006
Start -> run -> 'msconfig' is only a temporary fix. as soon as quicktime runs again it sets itself to start with windows ALL over again.
batiu_dramiMar 4, 2006
Or you could disable it in Quicktime preferences...wouldn't that be logical?
rastyMar 4, 2006
Exactly. The article looks like a poor man's solution. Has the writer ever tried to stop the iPod service from Windows' Services? That's what I do, as well as disabling Quicktime's auto startup as suggested in the parent comment. Works like a charm.
odysseusMar 4, 2006
The original Startup Control Panel 2.8 is by Mike Lin, and can be found at www.mlin.netOn fast machines, I prefer autoruns, which shows you absolutely everything that runs at startup: <a class="user" href="http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html">http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html</a>As for the ipodhelper, all it does is bring up itunes when you connect your ipod. (so it can be sync'd immediately) It only takes 1.4MB memory and it's pretty useful so I leave it on.The quicktime tray icon however is truly useless.
slythfoxMar 5, 2006Submitter
That's Quicktime without iTunes. You can't get iTunes without Quicktime, but you can get Quicktime without iTunes.