unable to unistall or us installed quicktime

Hi all,
Recently for some reason everytime I attempt to open quicktime or itunes the windows message (quictime has encounted a problem and needs to close down) or itunes. Have tried to unistall but now getting, when i try to unistall, (fatal error while installing). I tried to delete all quicktime files on harddrive for some silly reason. Then reinstalled quicktime, which said installed successfully but when i open I still get windows message saying encounted a problem and program has to close. How do I get rid of Quicktime off my harddrive pleeeeeease?????

 

From Apple, how to remove quicktime. Keep in mind that itunes requires quicktime so if you are using itunes, you will not be able to eliminate quicktime.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1786

Here's the latest itunes, which includes the latest quicktime
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

 

Yeh hi again,
I actually can't unistall Quicktime because when I try it says a fatal error has occurred. I also uninstalled realplayer and reinstalled it and it will not open, giving no information. It just will not open. Add Remove programs will not allow me to unistall Quicktime, nor can I unistall it from the start menu, Quictime, Unistall. Is there any other way I can completely get rid of Quicktime from my computer. I have tried to install over the top and also delete some Quicktime rv files with no result. How do I get rid of Quicktime.??????

 

Try CCleaner
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4191.html
After installing, on the main page, in the left column, click on Tools. Then select Run Uninstaller.
If it isn't listed then you need to first search for an Apple and/or Quicktime folder and delete quicktime.

NOTE: Before you attempt the following, you must back up your registry! Why? Because if you delete things you shouldn't, you'll be in a much bigger mess than you are at present.
Backup the registry by clicking the first word (in 2K it is Registry but I know it is not that word in XP - it might be file) and select Export registry. That will backup your registry. Put it on your desktop so you can find it if you need it.
Then start/run and type in regedit and click on Edit, then find and type Quicktime in the box. It will stop when it finds a registry entry which, if quicktime, you'll chose to delete. Press F3 and it will locate the next item.

 

Hi its me again I got some information on how to unistall Quicktime when it won't unistall and one of the pieces of information says to back up registry to desktop first, I am unsure how to do this or what it means. Please help, not very advanced, but trying to learn. When I search(right click on start menu, search) for quicktime I get 1177 hits, this seems like alot is it because I have tried to reinstall quicktime without unistalling so many times. I have also tried to use repair with the unistaller which says Quicktime is successfully installed, but it is not.

 

I posted above how to back up the registry.

 

Hi, sorry I cant find the post to back up the registry, you said you posted above. Dont know how to do this, which registry do i need to backup on desktop?, Quicktime. Do not know how to do this, thankyou for your support.

 

Start/run and type in regedit
The registry window will come up...

 

Hi, I tried what you said, cc cleaner, backup registry to desktop(said there was error but still copied 28gb to desktop), but still have quicktime. Deleted quicktime with cc, think I got rid of all quicktime files with regedit(f3) still unable to unistall Quicktime. Have I missed anything. Also have error problems when copy, pasting to usb flashdrive mp3. Is this a manifestion of my Quicktime problem. How do I get rid of Quciktime???????????

 

Sorry, I've told you all I could find on uninstalling quicktime. If you've used the add/remove programs icon, tired to remove it using CCleaner, removed it from the registry and run CCleaner again to get rid of the broken shortcuts. I don't think there is much else you can do short of a clean install to remove it.

 

Hey I found this article below that might help. I am about to try this myself. Due to poor playback quality in QT I am gonna try to roll back to an earlier version of QT and ITunes to hopfully work around the issue.

http://www.codecguide.com/quicktime_removal.htm

 

Check this out too.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/manually_uninstall_programs.htm
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In addition, after you've followed those instructions I'd press "Edit" and press "Find" and type in quicktime and delete each highlighted item (F3 will take you to the next item) - IMPORTANT before you do anything to the registry, BACK IT UP by going to "File" and then "Export" - if things go bad you will be able to double click on the "Exported" file to restore things back to where they were before you screwed it up