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Re: how to remove Active X control



On 8/29/01 20:38 David Gibson wrote:

>I've succeeded in placing the OBJECT tag in some of my pages and it 
>works perfectly on my win98 IE6.0 test machine.
>....
> Now my QTVRs all work fine.  But 
>how do I remove it?  I noticed there is a file "qttask.exe" located 
>in Windows\System that was dated at the time of the install. Do I 
>simply delete this file?

No.  You need to delete (from Windows NT and 2000; same file, but not 
sure the path under 9x):
c:\\winnt\system32\qtplugin.ocx

Here's a post from Eric Carlson that was made to the QT-Talk list 
regarding this:

>   FYI, you can unregister an ActiveX control by opening a DOS shell 
>and typing "regsvr32 /u [ActiveX file name]". It may take a second or 
>two to complete, a dialog will come up telling you if it was 
>successfully unregistered.
>
>   The QuickTime ActiveX control is named "qtplugin.ocx", so to 
>unregister it type:
>
>    regsvr32 /u "c:\windows\system\qtplugin.ocx"
>
>for Win 9x, or
>
>    regsvr32 /u "c:\WINNT\system32\qtplugin.ocx"
>
>for Win NT family.
>
>   Unregistering an ActiveX control is equivalent to uninstalling it, 
>the file is still on your system but IE won't be able to find or use 
>it and will prompt you to download it again when you hit a properly 
>formatted OBJECT tag.
>
>   To reregister a control, type the same thing as above but omit the "/u".
>
>Eric Carlson
>QuickTime Engineering


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