Quixtime In Systems Tray OK?

[John Gregory]

I found the icon of QuickTime in my systems tray; I assume that means
something is constantly running. Do I want that? I view a lot of news
articles, hate unwanted ads that arrive uninvited (like Forbes), and never
call upon QuickTime intentionally to do anything.

 

[S.Sengupta]

If you don't want to see it in the system tray:-
Right-Click on the icon>Preferences>Browser Plugin
from the drop down >Uncheck "QuickTime system tray icon" checkbox.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Plato]

I found the icon of QuickTime in my systems tray; I assume that means
something is constantly running. Do I want that? I view a lot of news
articles, hate unwanted ads that arrive uninvited (like Forbes), and never
call upon QuickTime intentionally to do anything.

Disable it. You dont need it running 24/7.

 

[ms]

Disable it. You dont need it running 24/7.

In Control Panel, go to the QuickTime applet, select Browser Plug-in from
the pull down menu.
Uncheck Quick Time system tray icon.

I initially disabled this through msconfig, so I don't know if this just
removes the icon or stops the program from running at start-up.

If you go the control panel route, run Task Manager to see if the QuickTime
program is still in running.

I use Spybot to monitor any registry changes, and each time I view a QT
movie on a website, QT tries to re-insert this program into the start-up.

HTH.