Killing QuickTime’s Annoying “Upgrade” Reminder

November 23, 2004 on 10:19 am | In Web/Tech |

I hate the fact that everytime I load QuickTime it gives me a pop-up box asking me whether I want to upgrade to QuickTime Pro.  Argh.  No means NO! 

I recently found that there is a way to make it stop asking!!!  [via this Cult of Mac Blog post]

UPDATE:  Don’t forget to first shut down anything on your computer that might freak out if the date jumps ahead 10 years for 5 minutes (Outlook, etc.)…you should have seen the box of "meeting reminders" that Outlook kicked up.  LOL.

UPDATE #2:  Norton AntiVirus gave me a "you need to upgrade" warning.  I think the date change triggered NAV to set a reminder pop-up box re:  expired subscription.  Howver, NAV still says my subscription is valid until 2005 and the update was fine.  Thus, it did not mess up NAV, but did trigger a false warning.  You might want to run this little trick in Safe Mode (XP) or at least close EVERY program on your computer first.  Use at your own risk.  LOL.

UPDATE #3:  A week later, QT still fixed and my computer appears to be fine (nothing broken by the tinkering).

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