iTunes is taking over my PC...how do I stop it?
Before I get this rolling, I'd like to say that I absolutely love my video iPod. It's my favorite gadget ever. I never knew what was so great about it until I had one. Thank you, Apple, for this wondeful product.
Now on to the bad news.
I'm a die-hard PC user. I love my Windows Media Player, and I won't use anything else (that's right, not even winamp). Why? Because I like it. It's my default program for video and audio files for a reason, and that's because I want it to open up when I play an Audio or Video file from the explorer. So as I'm happily computing, browsing my forums, when someone comes along and says, "Hey, check out this crazy acoustic guitar version of Toxic I did! {hyperlink}"
Well, my my my, this sounds interesting. I'll have to give it a listen. Windows Media player eventually pops up, and seconds later, iTunes pops up. This angers me. Greatly. iTunes is acting like Spyware now. It's intrusive, and I don't want it doing that every time I open a file, because I'm wasting CPU cycles while my least favorite program decides it's just going to do whatever it wants and ignore my wishes that it just lets WMP do its thing. But this wasn't so bad as what happened to me last night.
I set up 3gp converter to convert about 25 videos into iPod format (I'm not using the iTunes converter...it takes ten times as long as 3gp, and I hate iTunes anyway). I leave it to run overnight, and drift off into sleepyland. I wake up in the morning, and stumble to my computer, to ensure that all went well.
All did not go well. All my videos have been converted to iPod friendly format, but there are 25+ instances of iTunes sitting in my taskbar.
This is unacceptable.
I do not want iTunes taking over my computer. I have my program defaults set a certain way because I like the programs I've chosen. How do I stop iTunes from continuing this behaviour?
Custom Windows XP Pro
Now on to the bad news.
I'm a die-hard PC user. I love my Windows Media Player, and I won't use anything else (that's right, not even winamp). Why? Because I like it. It's my default program for video and audio files for a reason, and that's because I want it to open up when I play an Audio or Video file from the explorer. So as I'm happily computing, browsing my forums, when someone comes along and says, "Hey, check out this crazy acoustic guitar version of Toxic I did! {hyperlink}"
Well, my my my, this sounds interesting. I'll have to give it a listen. Windows Media player eventually pops up, and seconds later, iTunes pops up. This angers me. Greatly. iTunes is acting like Spyware now. It's intrusive, and I don't want it doing that every time I open a file, because I'm wasting CPU cycles while my least favorite program decides it's just going to do whatever it wants and ignore my wishes that it just lets WMP do its thing. But this wasn't so bad as what happened to me last night.
I set up 3gp converter to convert about 25 videos into iPod format (I'm not using the iTunes converter...it takes ten times as long as 3gp, and I hate iTunes anyway). I leave it to run overnight, and drift off into sleepyland. I wake up in the morning, and stumble to my computer, to ensure that all went well.
All did not go well. All my videos have been converted to iPod friendly format, but there are 25+ instances of iTunes sitting in my taskbar.
This is unacceptable.
I do not want iTunes taking over my computer. I have my program defaults set a certain way because I like the programs I've chosen. How do I stop iTunes from continuing this behaviour?
Custom Windows XP Pro
