Get rid of Quicktime icon.

[de8212]

I have a Quicktime icon installed on my taqskbar. I do not have quicktime on my pc though. When I click on it it doesn't launch anything. When I left click on it, I can choose Exit, Quicktime Website, Recent, Favorites.

How do I get rid of it.
pic below.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/de8212/Clipboard01.jpg

 

[gsaldivar]

I have the same question.

That damn icon is getting on my nerves... :|

 

[igowerf]

I just went into quicktime properties and had it hide the icon.

 

[Slogun]

Usually you can right-click on an icon and select delete.

 

[RVN]

I didn't look in msconfig first, but removed the startup entry with jv16 powertools.

 

[Bulldog13]

"Start"
"Run"
"Msconfig"
"Startup"
Uncheck "qttask.exe"

 

[VBboy]

Either delete the executable or right-click on that icon and select "Disable".

 

[RVN]

It keeps coming back. Very annoying!

Like VBboy said delete the executable. Or, rename it.
(typically located here - C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe,

or, delete the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"QuickTime Task"="\"C:\\Program Files\\QuickTime\\qttask.exe\" -atboottime"

 

[ApacheXMD]

if you look in the quicktime directory you'll see the qttask.exe and an ocx file (forgot the name of it). What I did was right clicked the icon in the tray. Then I unregistered the ocx file (it's an ActiveX control thingymabob) using regsrv32 /u in the command line. Then I deleted the quicktime folder. It never came back

at command prompt:
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Quicktime\blahblah.ocx"

-patchy