How do I have Windows Media PLayer instead of QT?

[hammersley]

I installed ITUNES, and now all my movies that I look at go to Quicktime. How can I change the default to correct this and have the default Windows Media Player? I'm running XP with Explorer 6 with latest updates from windows?



Thanks

 

[illflem]

The way I did it after installing iTunes was to go to my music folder, right click on a song, click open with, click choose program, now choose windows media player and check the box that says always use the selected program to open this type of file. It will then become your default. You can do the same with any video type program.





Have you checked out the visual effects on iTunes, tons better than media player. You can make it fill the entire screen then control music played with the keyboard, spacebar is pause/play left and right arrows are replay and skip.

iTunes also fades in and out of tracks really nice, I ended up making it my default music player, media player for vids.

 

[rfcom]

I hate apps that hijack your file associations. You can put them back from QT by selecting Edit -> Preferences -> Quick Time Preferences and then selecting File Type Associations. From WMP select Tools -> Options -> File Types and check the file types you want associated with WMP.



Jim

 

[illflem]

Originally posted by rfcom

I hate apps that hijack your file associations.

iTunes does give you the option of chosing the default players when you first install it. Easy to pass by it though.

The more I use iTunes the more I like it.