Quicktime is hijacking my browser, HELP

[LaX]

Ok, this is very odd/frustrating, but Apple Quicktime is hijacking IE6.

Here's an example. Let's say I go to this link to watch an MP4 (MPEG-4)
file.

http://www.archive.org/details/AskMeDon1961

If I click on the streaming MPEG4 file, the browser goes to the next page,
as it should...and then opens up Quicktime to play it.

Now this makes no sense. In Quicktime in the file associations AND the MIME
extensions, the only thing associated with Quicktime are Qucktime files. No
..avi, no MPEG...nothing.

In Windows 'File Types', MP4 files are clearly associated with Windows Media
Player 10. If I open the file directly from my hard drive (after downloading
it), WMP10 will play the file.

For whatever reason, Quicktime wants...no insists on playing these files.
Even in WMP10 I have the file associated with WMP10.

This just makes no sense. I can't uninstall Quicktime because I can't watch
..qt files. When I did take Quicktime off, the files no longer played in IE
at all, not even in WMP10.

This is just bizarre. I only have this problem with IE6 since I can open the
files correctly from Windows Explorer. I want Quicktime TOTALLY
DISASSOCIATED from IE6 except for it's own ..qt files.

Help. How do I fix this?

 

[PA Bear]

It would appear that the MP4 file on that page is hard-coded to play in
Quicktime by default, LaX. I don't have Quicktime installed here and none
of the streams will open in WMP.

 

[JoeM]

If you are using XP with SP2 you can turn off the quicktime plugin under
manager add-ons in IE. Try that and see what happens

 

[LaX]

Yeah, I can play them locally...but WMP10 won't stream them because it says
it's out of memory...a totally different problem. Local play, no problem.
Streaming, big problem.

But if you d/l and play, it should be fine.

 

[LaX]

It just gives the balloon asking to re-initalise the plugin. That was a good
idea, though. As I said to PA Bear, WMP10 doesn't like to stream it.