Get rid of the QuickTime Content Guide

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Get rid of the QuickTime Content Guide

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Get rid of the QuickTime Content Guide
By javester
05-18-2006

Everytime you fire up QuickTime on its own, a Content Guide is displayed onscreen.

Some may find the ads valuable, but for me, its just a distraction. Not only does it show content that I'm not interested in 99.9% of the time (I use iTunes to hunt for new content nowadays), it takes QuickTime about 5 seconds to display the unsolicited content.

Wanna get rid of it? Just go to the QuickTime preferences menu. In the General section, just uncheck "Show Content Guide automatically".

That's it!

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JPT on 05-18-2006, 05:00 PM

Yeah that has annoyed me a bit even though I rarely ever open Quicktime since it is crap on wheels for Windows (Crashes all the time, tried reinstall, but was a no go...)

Thanks for the tip

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Bernie on 05-18-2006, 05:34 PM

Quicktime works great on my Mac. I had forgotten what that screen looked like because on my Mac that only shows up when I open the application first, as you did indeed state. If I click on a movie clip I only see the movie. With Flip4Mac I can open a WM file and get the same result, just the movie window.
Just for the record a lot of things are crap on wheels for WinDoze!

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JPT on 05-18-2006, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Bernie

Such as Windows its self!! lol

Last edited by JPT : 05-18-2006 at 07:44 PM.

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