Repair or Reinstall QuickTime

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Repair or Reinstall QuickTime

Hi, guys. This is really an iTunes problem that involves QuickTime. When I try to open iTunes, I get the following message:

"The iTunes application could not be opened. A required iTunes component is not installed. Please repair or reinstall Quicktime. (-42404)"

This is news to me; everything was working fine yesterday. How do I fix QuickTime without having to buy the new download? I just want the free version that came with my iTunes to work again.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

ThinkPad, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Feb 10, 2009 7:11 AM

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varjak paw

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Feb 10, 2009 8:23 AM in response to Camper M.

QuickTime is free; the only version you have to pay for is Pro which gives you editing and format conversion capabilities.

Do a repair install of iTunes. Switch off antivirus and antispyware applications prior to the repair install. Then go into Add/Remove and select iTunes. click "Change" and then click "Repair". That should reinstall any missing components.

Hope this helps.

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Feb 10, 2009 8:26 AM in response to varjak paw

Dave,

I need your HELP!! Again!! Please see my question I posted Upgraded vmware fusion now mac is panicing.

Thanks,
Crystal

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rfrazao

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Feb 15, 2009 5:56 AM in response to varjak paw

Hi,

I have followed your suggestion, but the problem continue, woul you have any other idea to my problem, I have installed Quick Time 7.6 and Itunes 8.1.

I'm trying to use my Ipod Nano, but it's getting impossible, my first problem it's that Itunes does not recognize my Ipod, when I tryed to follow the 5R sugestion to fix the problem, now I'm with this problem that now I can't open Itunes. I'm getting nuts with this product. Sometimes I think I will have to do a computer sciense course to solve this problem.

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Mar 4, 2009 10:20 AM in response to Camper M.

I had this same issue, but a repair and uninstall/reinstall failed to work. This forum post below worked for me though.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090221012538AAkPQcV

After uninstalling the 7.6 version of quicktime, I also ran the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301). I am not sure if it's needed for this to work, but I did it just in case. This has helped me when removing improper registry settings leftover after uninstalls.

The version in the quicktime in the link above is 7.5.5.

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