Quick Time problems

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I have a Dell Dimension XPS T-600 (I know, a dinosaur). I had a problem with Quick Time when I first bought the unit, but getting a disc with the program on it solved the problem. For years, I have upgraded with no adverse results, until the last time I did it. Now, I cannot see anything that requires Quick Time! When I click on a movie trailer or other such thing, it begins to load, then all I get is a picture of a broken piece of film, and nothing more. Sometimes I get an error message saying that the plug-in cannot be found, or that the plug-in has an error. I cannot watch anything, and that is really frustrating. Also, I have DSL. Now, when I visit some other websites to look at the video trailer, it defaults to the Windows Media Player, and it defaults to a modem connection--which gives me tiny videos and stop action instead of a really nice video. This particular site  used to default to Quick Time. I have called customer support for Quick Time and they had me totally delete Quick Time and put it back in. No help, no help at all. They keep telling me it is a setting in Windows. All I know is that I am tremendously frustrated by this and I am at my wit's end. I don't know what to do to fix this, and I am hoping someone out there can help me. There is another problem too. Used to be, when I would put a CD in the CD player, it would automatically start up and play. Now, when I place a CD in there, it brings up the CD player but it doesn't start playing automatically. When I place a program CD in there, nothing happens at all. There may be a program on there called autorun.exe, but it doesn't load up. Boy, do I wish I had enough money to get another computer! Pris

speedstep · Answer

Quictime has been updated MANY MANY MANY TIMES.

1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,5.1.6.0.6.5

Qucktime5 is the last version that supports WIN95.

I believe 6.5 only supports XP but your T600 will support XP just fine.

Install directx 8.1b then install quicktime 6.5
xp doesnt need directx 8.1 because it comes with it.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/DirectX/Update/8.1b/W98Me/EN-US/DX81eng.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/DirectX/Update/8.1b/NT5/EN-US/DX81NTeng.exe

http://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52/20031010/qtinstall.info.apple.com/saba/us/win/QuickTimeFullInstaller.exe

The stand alone quicktime supports 98/ME/2000/XP

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone/

install those items and then see.

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