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Mudcat

Mudcat

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I didn't do anything to it and suddenly it just changes. WTF?

Suddenly out of the blue, when I go to play a movie, it is defaulting to something called QuickTime Movie Player. Up until yesterday, It would default to Windows Media Player.

I wouldn't even care all that much - except this new thing doesn't actually play movies. It just gives me a blank gray screen that sits there.

I go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel and I can't find it there.





I had the exact same thing happen with my picture viewer. Suddenly I started defaulting to a QuickTime Picture viewer - which didn't show fucking pictures! I did manage to delete that. I don't know how; I couldn't find it in Add/Remove programs either. But I figured something out and was able to switch to a picture viewer that shows pictures.



Anyway, any suggestions about this movie viewer?
 
Yap. Save that shit locally first.

There's also a way to change the program/file associations for WMP but it varies from one version of Windows to the next. I can only give you directions for Windows 7.
 
Mudcat
I saved it and tried playing it in Windows Media Player but it wouldn't play. But then it played in VLC media player.

:dunno:
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Thats because you were instructed to install and use VLC media player the last time you posted a similar problem here.

Plommer remembers because he is the one that recommended this fix.
 
I don't remember that. I remember you instructed me to install something called GOMplayer - which I did. That is on a different computer which used to be my main computer but has since been replaced by this one.

I haven't had this computer for long and whatever is on it must have come with it.

But I don't know what is happening with this QuickTime stuff. It's like it is coming with my sister's emails and taking over the system.
 
Mudcat
I don't remember that. I remember you instructed me to install something called GOMplayer - which I did. That is on a different computer which used to be my main computer but has since been replaced by this one.

I haven't had this computer for long and whatever is on it must have come with it.

But I don't know what is happening with this QuickTime stuff. It's like it is coming with my sister's emails and taking over the system.
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This is important information and likely the source of the problem.
 
Except there was no problem. Everything was sailing along fine until my sister sent me a photo which I guess was using Quicktime Picture viewer. Suddenly every pic I wanted to open was defaulting to that - which was just a blank gray screen. No picture.

Then the same thing seemed to be happening with Quicktime movie player after she sent me a little movie of the nephew.

I still haven't uninstalled that but I guess I at least have a work-around.
 
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