Dear Apple,
Your Quicktime Player for Windows sucks.
Each time I upgrade iTunes, the Quicktime Player insists on installing a useless tray icon process, even though I disabled it in my previous configuration.
Randomly, the Quicktime Player pops a dialog asking me to "upgrade" to a "Pro" version of Quicktime. Why on earth would I want a "Pro" movie player application?
Frequently, when I launch the Quicktime Player app, a dialog pops up that looks like this:
This must be the least-informative error message ever created. Each button option does absolutely nothing but cause this dialog to reappear. Constantly. Repeatedly. Endlessly. The only way to get rid of this useless and obnoxious dialog is to kill the Quicktime process and delete every file in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QuickTime. I write-protected the file QuickTimeFavorites.qtr prevent this error in the future. Fortunately, the Quicktime Player application is too dumb to realize this.
Did I mention that the excellent open-source media player mplayer [mplayer, mplayersilent] plays Quicktime files fine? Without errors? Without nagging upgrade dialogs?
Love,
MikeyP
