| Kommentare über qttask.exe: |
 Alex | Quick Time Video Tray Icon |
 Belial555 | Used to Automatically Launch Quicktime Window When a .Mov Is clicked on in Web Site |
 entfernen | Apple's Quick Time Tray Icon which enables you to start Quick Time from the System Tray (from version 5 onward). |
 | an optional useless auto startup for quicktime player, disable it to save memory |
 Nicole | It is very easily infected w/ viruses |
| | quicktime player |
| | QTTASK IS STARTUP FOR QUICKTIME PLAYER FROM APPLE. |
| thewhug | Quicktime task program - just delete the exe file if you're annoyed by it. |
| Nathan | Apple's Quicktime Plug-In for your browser. it allows you to quickly view .MOV movies from inside of a web page. It is a component of the Quicktime Player Package. Siehe auch: Link |
| | Annoying and hard to disable permanantly. |
| Fuego | U get it going on websites & looking 4 videos |
| WeaselSpleen | This is NOT the browser plug-in, and it is NOT required to play Quicktime files at all! It's basically a shortcut that takes two megs of ram. Remove it!. Siehe auch: Link |
| jude | Not dangerous but annoying as hell. I cant get the damn thing to stay out of my startup!! |
| Harald | My system was hanging 5-10 seconds after startup every time. Removing qttask.exe in startup which fixed the problem. |
| TimMac | I know suddenly it appeared in my systray, and I don't have QT installed. Had to use the syscomfig to disable startup, and edit registry to remove the freaking thing |
| Rox | Extremely annoying. Windows 98 will not shut down when this is running. Hangs. Keeps reappearing after removal from msconfig startup. |
| Xtra_Zero | Part of Quicktime. Annoying, but not harmful. |
| Prebba | Piece of shit application - memory hogger, always adds itself to the 'Run' section of the registry. Unecessary. |
| Ian Wilkinson | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete the entry. Also delete the folder at |
| Solarity | You can prevent it from starting with msconfig. Go to Run... type msconfig & under startup uncheck qttask. on next restart and prompting, tell msconfig NOT to come up after reboot. |
| qttask | Beeinflusst die Grafik-und Soundfähigkieten besonders und stört unheimlich. Das Abspielen von Videos, Lieder oder Fotos ist nicht möglich! |
| lumen8r | Annoyin. Deleted the .exe from program directory, then out of reg. All better! |
| Titi | Installed with Quicktime web browser plug-in. Not dangerous. Consumes 1 Mo of RAM. To prevent it running, remove registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Quicktime Task". |
| Martin | Quicktime icon sits in your system tray. Remove by right clicking it, select QuickTime Preferences and then untick QuickTime system tray icon |
| EclipsE | totally unnecessary... get it's startup off your registry... |
| Jake | It caused my Internet Explorer to crash on a constant basis. |
| Frode | (Registry Info for XP:) In "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" you'll find "quicktime task" with the value "c:\programfiler\quicktime\qttask.exe -atboottime". Remove it to avoid the file from loading on boot. |
| Manoj | If you dont want this process to startup every time u start windows, go to the location of the .exe, right click, click on security tab and deny the permissions. When you want to play any Quick time application, u can allow permissions the same way. I tried everything to remove it from my startup..but in vain. Finally disabled permissions and it worked!! |
| John Topio | Crappy buggy piece of softtware, unfortunatelly installed with quicktime. the program eats more than 2 MB of RAM and it does nothing useful other than send information to apple.com about the movies you are watching. The information is stored in a small log file in your computer and sent in bursts to apple.com in an encripted format. |
| Pascal | non dangereux, c'est Quicktime |
| Per | Not virus or spyware actually, but still Very annoying on most OS's. Remove it ! |
| Black Dragon | It's the tray icon of Apple's Quick Time. I advice to disable it because it's just a drainage of memory |
| sullengirl | It suddenly appeared after I got cable, and everytime my 'puter is messed up, getting rid of QT fixes it. |
| Rob D | Keeps locking up my computer! |
 PattiB | It is one of the many progams that appear when I click Ctrl+Alt+Del and is keeping me from defragmenting my disk drive |
| | it's 100% useless - all features of quicktime work without it. completely not needed, to get rid of it block it from starting (DON"T delete, just disable, otherwise it will be recreated when you run quicktime) up using Spybot. also close it after you run quicktime, usually it pops up and stays, wastes cpu and ram and has no purpose. or you can just block the process from ever running (go to Administrative tools on start menu, then to Local Security settings-- software restric. policies-- add. rules, action- new hash rule, browse for file and it will never run again). |
| Tamanaco | Quick Time Tray Icon Siehe auch: Link |
| Clark Miller | Tells me I have no disk in hdd 12,13,14 and 15. A pain to keep cancelling the warning windows |
| vandutch | Erase The Icon on task bar, then go to the IE and delete |
| NYC Wolf | Apple QuickTime file that thinks its doing you a favor by auto-starting with your PC (common now with almost every program) cept this stupid thing keeps returning even when removed from registry & file is deleted. seems when QT is run, the program checks changes & deletion, & undoes whatever you did to remove it. VERY ANNOYING & resource hogging, but not dangerous. |
| Jayesh | its quick time plugin for IE but unnecessraily adds in the startup,can be removed by deleting HKLM\Software\Microsoft\windows\current version\run |
| Chris | box comes up every time i start up. when i deleted the file my autorun for cd drive was disabled. |
| Guy | I used XTeQ to prevent this task running on startup. Now my win2k system doesn't hang forever when closing down and boots quicker! |
| El | got it when I said I wanted to download QuickTime, but then I decided not to install. icon stayed even though QuickTime isn't intalled |
| skow | can be stopped from loading using app called 'starter' by codestuff Siehe auch: Link |
| djigoressie | all of a sudden, this process tries to access my cd-rom drive, when there is NO reason AT ALL. |
| jj | it auto starts-up and runs 88% of the time according to Task Manager, slows everything down... |
| anonymous | Quicktime is essential if you watch any video online, mostly. Also if you have iTunes, you need it. Don't delete! |
| AlmightySR | It attempts to take over your media file extentions. careful while installing it to not let it do this... and its from Crapple |
| Adil | To unload qttask.exe from system tray permanently, right click icon - Quick Time Preferences - Browser Plug-in - then REMOVE CHECK from Quick Time system tray icon. |
| Cruzado! | real pain in the a...s just unchecked the file if is in ur start up .. reebot .. scan with an antispy like avg , or freedom .if still there . .go to the registry and take out manally |
| alps | Quicktime taskbar - to remove, right click on it, select quicktime preferences, go to "Browser plugin", in that there is an option "QT taskbar", remove that. |
| durbinjoseph | I could not open preferencec while in Systems. It would not let me remove. I renamed in "a pain". I was then able to remove from systems. Silly but worked. I received it on my computer going to the War of the Worlds site, and immediately got it without even watching a trailer. |
| tim hibbard | i wrote a program to keep quicktime from running at startup. it removes any running quicktime processes and removes startup information Siehe auch: Link |
| scott808 | tries to keep quicktimes file type preferences from being changed. can be stopped with spybots teatimer. |
| NATHAN | qttask.exe produced by Apple, installs a tray bar icon which links to the Apple QuickTime video streaming tool. This program is a non-essential system process, and is installed for ease of use. |
| JT | Part of QuickTime; looks for disks in all drives on startup and reports error (wrongly) if a disk isn't found. |
| | not harmful, but not something i especially want |
| MerlynMagus | Takes up speed and can be easily virus-ified. Don't listen to "anonnymous." DELETE |
| | Auicktime, it is a process hog, get the quicktime alternative |
| tim | link to an app that cleans quicktime out of start up with out uninstalling it Siehe auch: Link |
| Steve | I don't like any pop-ups, especially unidentified boxes with dancing error messages! I too, tried to correct "qttask.exe" only to have it reappear under new error code numbers that meant nothing to me. Then I resolved the problem, I think, by doing this: Click START, SEARCH or FIND, CONTROL BOX, and right click on the Quick Time Icon. A window should appear that says: "QUICK TIME SETTINGS." See what is checked whether you checked it or not--uncheck the last two items in this window. Now RESTART and pay close attention to the Quick Time Icon close to your clock in the lower right corner. |
| LoveALeanMachine | Not needed in the system tray. Dont mess with the registry - open Qtime and uncheck "Quicktime System Tray Icon" option. |
| bob | if you delete the last e of qttask.exe to qttask.ex it will no longer work like an app and the quicktime player will work no problem just the tray icon will be gone |
| anger | No point if you only delete the registry. When you run quicktime it will restore back the registry. The best way is "Don't use quicktime!" |
| | QT Tray App, removal was easy, deleted, wrote prog in Installer VISE that deletes if file exists and sets reg entry to itself. I have it run on startup, it deletes QTTASK.exe everytime you start windows (even if its in use!) and fixed reg entry to run my cleaning app instead. Also added to task scheduler to run every 3 hours so QTTASK stays gone and registry stays happy about QT changing entry to invalid program. |
| J Renault | It's an annoying uninvited guest, that eats your computer out of memory and puts itself in startup no matter how many times you uncheck it in msconfig.sys. Delete the qttask.exe. |
| LCD | The worst thing is that QT will put qttask in the startup even when you're just viewing a web page with a linked QT file. Remove, rename, or change permissions on qttask. |
| texasliz | caused lag time, locked up computer, shut down internet explorer, would restart computer, etc. had to get son to remove it. never had so many problems at one time. |
| Me | 3\/1L - locked up my pc, removal from startup and registry and delete no work. Replace it with a dummy exe that does nothing (only way to get rid) |
| | Just delete qttask.exe, this doesn't affect playing quick time movies, but kills the annoying system tray icon |
| Pat | I did not like it and thank to those who posted how to get rid of it on computer it sure was a pain |
| | Appears to be connected to qttask.exe, so if you removed that, you should probably remove this. |
| GlassHouse | see this page (and scroll down) for detailed instruction to get rid of this POS Siehe auch: Link |
| sandra | I know that i don't want it on my pc and not sure how it got here |
| MeloSoft | a ver...qué no es un virus, es...un proceso de QUICKTIME! :) |
| grahmo | Don't edit the registry!!- "to remove, right click on it, select quicktime preferences, go to "Browser plugin", in that there is an option "QT taskbar", remove that." |
| computer dummy | Taking up 94% or more of CPU usage for what?? Slowing everything down. also shut the whole computer down several times |
| Koolio King | This is the most annoying thing for years. Always comes up again, I hate apple for that piece of shit! |
| Get it out of your system completely as soon as you see it. | Quick Time Task is pure garbage. It is a hosting body for a wide variety of virus Siehe auch: Link |
| dumb moron | Wanted to say something different than its for quicktime which we all know by now. |
| Spacko | Its Quicktime Task Icon, which is shown where the clock is. |
| Ron | Thanks for the info. I am getting rid of this thing |
| f | tray icon not dagnerous. |
| Christer | Rightmoused on tray icon and said close. It never closed. At shutdown it could not be ended. Powered off and then could not reboot after. Sour apple! |
| nick | i wont let me open any programs and says error when i click on one |
| XxfenryxX | its for quicktime media player kthx |
| malicious | got an netvision dialer from it. delete it. run, regedit,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete qttask.exe |
| Aqeel | Messed up any audio playing devices as it freezes up and any other programme running! Most annoying! |
| rob f | CWSQTTasks.exe is a coolweb search trojan |
| JJTop | whenever internet explorer could not load a page, i would end the qttask.exe process in task manager, and usually internet explorer would load a page just fine after that! stupid quicktime should do something about that.... quicktime just came out with a new version i guess (7.0.2), and all i did was went to edit - preferences - quicktime preferences - advanced - under "tray icon" uncheck "install quicktime icon in system tray" |
| becerob | annoying disable: run msconfig startup (uncheck)qttask ok reboot |
| Sunny | This file is non-essential. delete it from quicktime folder because everytime you run any application of quicktime(plugin,etc), it sets the value in the registry for qttask.exe to start. DELETE the file, i did it and quicktime works fine. |
| Just Me | giant pain; locks up PC; constantly crashes Internet Explorer. |
| Nate | If you remove it from the registry in HKLM Software Microsoft Windows Current Version Run, it will come back after another quicktime video is loaded. instead, navigate through that path, find the "Quickttime Task" entry, double-click it, and before the value "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime, add a SEMICOLON. This will keep it from starting up. It may not be able to be removed permanently, but you can render it useless. ;) Siehe auch: Link |
| | I read everything here to date then went to the programs/Quick Time folder and renamed qttask to qttasktemp. Then I ran msconfig in START and unchecked it in the Startup menu. Rebooted, and poofs...no icon and no recurring check mark. No problem! Try it. At the worst, you'd just go rename qttask back to the original name again to put you back to where you were. No problem on my machine though! |
| Jim Lawrence | I have to hit cancel 36 times after bootup to get rid of the message: "85c:qttask.exe no disk" because I have external drives and digital card readers that somehow get this little annoying ap all excited. Thanks for the help, I'm taking all the suggestions above! |
| mlw | it's a Quick Time (.mov player) ... slows down start-up/shut down processes. XP (maybe 2000) users: to remove from the start up process goto Start - Run - and type msconfig and goto Startup tab and uncheck qttask |
| mdith | a=squared ,malware scan id'ed it as trojan-Dropper.Win32.Paradrop.a but didn;t have any info on it in their malware database. My windows explorer says it's a 28KB application file created and last modified friday dec 7 2001 |
| armadolo | i have uninstalled quicktime and realtime from my pc ,and evry time i try to conect to the net it throws a pop up asking if i want to install them and slows the connection anyone know how to stop this happening |
| dutchfoxy | Like all others above, it is quicktime, seems unrequired, takes up space and maybe memory.... so dont want it!!! Start Quicktime only when NEEDED! qttask.exe is related to ipodmanager.exe, ipodservice.exe, ipodwatcher.exe, ituneshelper.exe Siehe auch: Link |
| Bill | Locked up my laptop with 99% cpu usage. Get rid of it! |
| Shalianahe | Quick time, Quick start up/sys tray prog ! ok but best to get rid of it |
| Matt | Apple's QuickTime Player - Taskbar Icon, can be removed in QuickTime Preferences Siehe auch: Link |
| waptek | “Start \ Programs\QuickTime ”, choose the “Edit \ Preferences” menu option, select “QuickTime Preferences” from the right hand side menu, uncheck the box next to QuickTime System Tray icon. Close QuickTime. Finally, Disable or Delete this entry on the Startups tab of msconfig then delete the file from hard drive.. don't install qt again.,,,, google "quicktime alternative".. |
| Jim | keeps reloading no matter what I do! |
| Rider | Quick Time Video Tray Icon Siehe auch: Link |
| Jon | File is a pain with bootup, takes up memory, thanks to Titi for directions to remove it, I would never have found that |
| Katrina | Quicktime updater? Pain in the ass to get rid of, causes problems if you don't "irradicate" it properly, hogs memory |
| Et Al | A file that comes as a part of the QuckTime application program - a legitimate application program. Using QuickTime is a personal preference and offers a free version. |
| Hi | This program is so annoying. I have just found out that on my dell inspiron 1150, the qttask.exe makes standby mode impossible, because it never responds back after putting the computer into standby. Therefore, I had to disable the qttask, but it keeps on coming EVERY single time back no matter what. So if you go into windows and go into the Quicktime program folder, just do ahead and delete qttask altogether. What a pointless startup program and system tray icon. |
| Rob | Thanks for all the good info on removing this sucker. I took one extra step and made a copy of calc.exe and renamed it qttask.exe and replaced the original qttask.exe file with it. Now if the calculator pops up out of the blue I'll know that the only thing that makes me dislike Apple/Quicktime. Hope this helps. |
| Annoyed with Quicktime and Apple! | Part of Quicktime. It will add itself back to the \run\ section fo the registry every time you use Quicktime. Rename the qttask.exe file and it cannot run. Then delete the key from the registry. It will then not come back. |
| Dan | Here is a link with a solution to inactivate this... (use Response Number 4) Siehe auch: Link |
| Derbs | qttask.exe is unneeded, slows down your computer and takes up RAM and will regenerate even after you have unchecked it in MsConfig. To delete it go to start run regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete the value |
| RichyRich | It is part of Quicktime from Apple Inc. If you have an Ipod or went to website that supports QT then this is where it has come from. The " -atboottime" is simply a switch to start at boot up. Please see link below and also do a search for just "qttask.exe" Siehe auch: Link |
| Luis | Quick Time icon for easy access to this program. |
| Jonathan Allen | I never installed QuickTime and there is no way to uninstall it. It burns resources and doesn't do anything useful. |
| KatKat | The easiest way to remove is to start up quicktime and go to Edit -- Preferences -- QuickTime Preferences -- Advanced Tab. At the bottom uncheck the box next to "Install QuickTime icon in system tray" |
| Ash | Had a lot of heavy disk activity, and found the problem to be QuickTimes ridiculous system tray app. Msconfig sorted it, but it has a random habit of coming back every so often... |
| Duce | Only what I have found on the web with a search |
| | You can use SpyBot Search and Destroy Tea Timer to block it from installing itself. |
| Marco | Apple quick time player. Can be dissabled as not required |
| Keith¿ | To remove it from the System Tray Right-Click the Icon in the System Tray and select "QuickTime Preferences" then under the Advanced tab uncheck the box under "Tray Icon" that asks whether to install QuickTime in the System Tray. The End... |
| Death | It consumes resources, does sod all, is completly useless, and unsurprisingly it's made by Apple. Avoid at all costs if you can! I recently installed Quicktime to play audio samples off of dieTunes, but behold the thing suddenly installed itself as a FireFox component as well and now my whole machine (A P4) crawls along like a snail. Have tried above removal techniques, but it appears that QTTASK.EXE and something else check for and replace any Quicktime files and registry keys deleted by the user. Looks like Apple don't want us to uninstall their malware...Funny, that! :-[ |
| Keiran230 | It is not dangerous exactly. All it is a media player, however it is easily attacked by people who do make malware, so it could easily be a medium of getting something unsafe. Since it isnt the only media player there is, and there are plenty of media players that are better than it in many ways, I would getting rid of it if you dont need it. You may need it if you own certain programs, like some mpeg to mp4 converters. |
| Grinder | In new version even if you remove the registry key, it puts it right back. It also hides itself in the task manager. So you can't kill it easily. Need to start in Safe Mode. Presistent little bugger. And to Et Al: tell your friends at Fruit Company that it's a very bad practice to stick unneeded crap into startup. I would gladly remove whole Quicktime from my computer, but unfortunately there are some morons who stick clips in this format on their web pages. |
| Johnny Logan | I am not a programmer or technician but when I had this on my system I thought it behaved in a manner similer to windows task manager as a background application. I never had a problem with it. |
| Apurva | Seems useless. To disable uncheck - Start - Run - MSCONFIG - Startup - unCheck |
| Techware Computers | 2 things. 1) It isn't dangerous 2) It's a pain the in the butt. If you remove it from the registry RUN areas, the next time you run Quicktime it automatically adds the setting back to the registry. What to do? Download the Startup Control Panel then just UNCHECK it from the start up processes. If you actually delete the entry then quicktime will add it back.Follow link to download free Startup Control Panel (freeware, no spam or BS) Siehe auch: Link |
| | It is an Apple QuickTime system tray icon application. |
| Owen | I heard it`s easily exploited if you dont upgrade to the latest qt version, recently noticed my internet connection was recieving and sending a fair few packets, killed the process and it stopped communicating, maybe its juts a coincidence?!? |
| R. Bardwell | Not needed. iTunes needs QuickTime, but will run fine without qttask.exe! Siehe auch: Link |
| Rabbit | Program came with a Sims DVD-Rom. Games player at home so now don't think I'll ever be able to remove. |
| Kim | For QT7....don't know about older versions....delete TWO registry entries: HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shared Tools/MSConfig/Startupreg/qttask Delete the whole key. Also delete string in RUN key as mentioned numerous times. I did this a couple of days ago and it has not regenerated itself like it used to. Stopping this task from running using the "proper" method of unchecking it in QT prefs did not work. |
| Glen | Simply start Quicktime (Start\Program Files\Quicktime\Quicktime Player), Click on EDIT - Preferences - Quicktime Preferences - ADVANCED. And uncheck "Install Quicktime Icon in System Tray" -- it's that simple. You don't need to edit your registry to remove a feature included in the software. Sheesh... |
| CK | Ok, I haven´t got Quicktime installed properly, so I CAN´T disable this in some tab....Have got Vista, no run in start....How to get rid of it now?/ |
| Tony Carr | Quick Time tray icon. Can be stopped with either Spybot Teatimer or startup.exe from Mike Lin Siehe auch: Link Link |
| Ron | It randomly locks up system. When I look at cpu usage in task manager, this file is at top of list even though it shows to be using zero cpu. When I stop this file, my system returns to normal functioning. |
| zymogen | I wasn't able to use windows vista aero while "qttask.exe" was running. uninstalled quicktime player and aero worked fine again. |
| Troedel | qttask.exe (Quicktime) war evtl. bei mir von einem Trojaner (TR/Hijack.Agent.BO oder TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen) gekapert. Die Datei hat sich immer wieder in den Autostart und in die Taskliste eingeschlichen und zwar hartnäckig im Wechsel mit der vmtl. auch gekaperten nvsvc32.exe (nvidia Treiber). Nvsvc32.exe hatte zuvor DOS-Box Anwendungen deutlich ausgebremst. |
| Kees | Not needed or critical, just a shortcut. To prevent it from reinstalling when Windows loads, delete C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe. It's safe |
| | Isn't dangerous but is considered malware by some users |
| Courtney | It is for QuickTime quick launch. You can uncheck it in MSCONFIG but it will return once QuickTime runs agian. To stop this, rename qttask.exe to something like qttask_old.exe and it will never come back in MSCONFIG. |
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