Just out of curiosity ...

Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in
File Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and
playing .mpeg and .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to
play in Apple's QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
to return to the way things used to be?

I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?

TIA :-)

On 13/05/2011 17:55, Ellwood P. Farquad wrote:
> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
> to return to the way things used to be?
>
> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>
> TIA :-)

QuickTime takes longer to load than most things.
It sure sounds as if Windows itself is calling up the little beggar, so
look here;
QuickTime Preferences
Browser tab
File Types ......

and report back.

Ed

On 13/05/2011 18:24, Ed Cryer wrote:
> On 13/05/2011 17:55, Ellwood P. Farquad wrote:
>> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
>> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
>> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
>> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
>> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
>> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
>> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
>> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
>> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
>> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
>> to return to the way things used to be?
>>
>> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
>> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
>> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>>
>> TIA :-)
>

Oh, by the way, since you're concerned about good English grammar.
"If I may end a sentence with a preposition." is not a sentence; it's
only a clause, a conditional clause in this case.

Ed

On 13/05/2011 18:27, Ed Cryer wrote:
> On 13/05/2011 18:24, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> On 13/05/2011 17:55, Ellwood P. Farquad wrote:
>>> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
>>> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
>>> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
>>> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
>>> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
>>> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
>>> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
>>> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
>>> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
>>> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
>>> to return to the way things used to be?
>>>
>>> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
>>> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
>>> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>>>
>>> TIA :-)
>>
>
> Oh, by the way, since you're concerned about good English grammar.
> "If I may end a sentence with a preposition." is not a sentence; it's
> only a clause, a conditional clause in this case.
>
> Ed

And my attempt above is grammatically bad as well. The first would-be
sentence is not a complete sentence. It consists of an exclamation, a
parenthetical comment and a subordinate causal clause. There is no main
clause!

Ed

Are you VERY sure that Quicktime's "internal" settings are not set to
commandeer the mpg and mpeg file types? That is one of the things that
really tees me off about that program. If you install it, it just takes
a batch of file types overriding the Windows settings. And then you have
to dig around in the options of QT and deselect them.

On 5/13/2011 11:55, Ellwood P. Farquad wrote:
> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
> to return to the way things used to be?
>
> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>
> TIA :-)

On Fri, 13 May 2011 18:32:41 +0100, Ed Cryer <>
wrote:

>On 13/05/2011 18:27, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> On 13/05/2011 18:24, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> On 13/05/2011 17:55, Ellwood P. Farquad wrote:
>>>> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
>>>> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
>>>> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
>>>> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
>>>> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
>>>> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
>>>> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
>>>> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
>>>> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
>>>> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
>>>> to return to the way things used to be?
>>>>
>>>> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
>>>> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
>>>> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> TIA :-)
>>>
>>
>> Oh, by the way, since you're concerned about good English grammar.
>> "If I may end a sentence with a preposition." is not a sentence; it's
>> only a clause, a conditional clause in this case.
>>
>> Ed
>
>And my attempt above is grammatically bad as well. The first would-be
>sentence is not a complete sentence. It consists of an exclamation, a
>parenthetical comment and a subordinate causal clause. There is no main
>clause!
>
>Ed

Unless, it is Christmas time. (Sorry, just had to do it)

On 5/13/2011, Ellwood P. Farquad posted:
> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and .mpg
> videos when it's not authorized to?
> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
> to return to the way things used to be?

> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?

> TIA :-)

Echoing (with changes) what 'Bob I' said: some programs have an option
to reclaim associations if they've been taken over by another program.

To see what it does, I just started QT. It asked me if I wanted it to
restore associations. I checked "Don't ask me again" and I clicked on
no.

That dialog said that I could change my mind later about the
associations, but I can't find any way in the help, the menus, or at
apple.com, to do that.

Weird.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 5/13/2011, FoxMike posted:
> On Fri, 13 May 2011 18:32:41 +0100, Ed Cryer <>
> wrote:

>> On 13/05/2011 18:27, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> On 13/05/2011 18:24, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>> On 13/05/2011 17:55, Ellwood P. Farquad wrote:
>>>>> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
>>>>> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
>>>>> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
>>>>> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
>>>>> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
>>>>> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
>>>>> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
>>>>> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
>>>>> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
>>>>> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
>>>>> to return to the way things used to be?
>>>>>
>>>>> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
>>>>> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
>>>>> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, by the way, since you're concerned about good English grammar.
>>> "If I may end a sentence with a preposition." is not a sentence; it's
>>> only a clause, a conditional clause in this case.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>> And my attempt above is grammatically bad as well. The first would-be
>> sentence is not a complete sentence. It consists of an exclamation, a
>> parenthetical comment and a subordinate causal clause. There is no main
>> clause!
>>
>> Ed

> Unless, it is Christmas time. (Sorry, just had to do it)

At which remark I extend my claws in a threatening gesture.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Gene E. Bloch" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On 5/13/2011, Ellwood P. Farquad posted:
>> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
>> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
>> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
>> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
>> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
>> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
>> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
>> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
>> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
>> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
>> to return to the way things used to be?
>
>> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
>> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
>> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>
>> TIA :-)
>
> Echoing (with changes) what 'Bob I' said: some programs have an option to
> reclaim associations if they've been taken over by another program.
>
> To see what it does, I just started QT. It asked me if I wanted it to
> restore associations. I checked "Don't ask me again" and I clicked on no.
>
> That dialog said that I could change my mind later about the associations,
> but I can't find any way in the help, the menus, or at apple.com, to do
> that.
>
> Weird.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>
>

Go to Quick Time in Control Panel. Down at the bottom of the Browser tab is
File "Types...". You can change the associations there.
--
SC Tom

"SC Tom" <> wrote in message news:iqkacc$34g$...
>
> "Gene E. Bloch" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> On 5/13/2011, Ellwood P. Farquad posted:
>>> Well, I've tried just about all the tricks and known techniques in File
>>> Association - Program Control etc., so how can Apple's
>>> QuickTime Player be overriding Microsoft's Windows and playing .mpeg and
>>> .mpg videos when it's not authorized to?
>>> If I may end a sentence with a preposition.
>>> I'm certain that .mpg files that used to play in Windows
>>> Media Player now hesitate for a somewhat lengthy period
>>> of time and then the "blue Q" displays and they start to play in Apple's
>>> QuickTime. Why? How did Windows get
>>> so rudely shouldered aside and what's the secret override
>>> to return to the way things used to be?
>>
>>> I swear to you the Control Panel settings say that Windows
>>> Media Player, not QuickTime, should be playing .mpg and .mpeg
>>> videos, but it's just not happening that way. Suggestions?
>>
>>> TIA :-)
>>
>> Echoing (with changes) what 'Bob I' said: some programs have an option to
>> reclaim associations if they've been taken over by another program.
>>
>> To see what it does, I just started QT. It asked me if I wanted it to
>> restore associations. I checked "Don't ask me again" and I clicked on no.
>>
>> That dialog said that I could change my mind later about the
>> associations, but I can't find any way in the help, the menus, or at
>> apple.com, to do that.
>>
>> Weird.
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>
>>
>
> Go to Quick Time in Control Panel. Down at the bottom of the Browser tab
> is File "Types...". You can change the associations there.
> --
> SC Tom
>

That should be "File Types...".
--
SC Tom