Quicktime Player 7.7.9 for Windows Failed to initialize Error 2096

Hello Jacumba,

My apologies for being unclear. Let me try again.

1. I tried to access my installed copy of QuickTime Player and received the message: QuickTime failed to initialize Error 2096. There was also something about verifying that the application had been installed properly.

2. I went into the Windows 7 Control Panel; Programs and Features; scrolled down and clicked on the icon for QuickTime. Three options became available Uninstall, Change, or Repair.

3. I selected Repair and the Apple Installer opened installing another copy of QuickTime 7.7.9.

4. I tried to open QuickTime again and received the same message of QuickTime failed to initialize Error 2096. There was also something about verifying that the application had been installed properly. I checked Windows 7 Action Center to see if there where any message and did not find anything

5. I uninstalled QuickTime, restarted my computer, went the QuickTime Player free installation page and installed QuickTime Player 7.7.9.

6. I again tried to open QuickTime 7.7.9 and got the message QuickTime failed to initialize Error 2096. There was also something about verifying that the application had been installed properly. Checking Windows 7 Action Center there was the Warning Message of QuickTime 7 Unsuccessful application installation. Going into the details I found this

QuickTime 7

Problem:

Unsuccessful application installation

Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: QuickTime 7. Product Version: 7.76.80.95. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Apple Inc.. Installation success or error status: 1602.

7. I went back to the Control Panel, Programs and Features, and clicked on the QuickTime icon this time clicking on the uninstall option.

8. I began searching Apple and somehow stumbled on to a page that had Installers for QuickTime 7.7.9 and 7.7.6. Since 7.7.9 had failed to install twice and probably not during the update back in January I ran the installer for 7.7.6 and QuickTime 7.7.6 worked.

9. I checked for updates which returned 7.7.9 and I installed the update which again appeared to install QuickTime Player 7.7.9. I again attempted to open QuickTime 7.7.9 and received QuickTime failed to initialize Error 2096 again. I uninstalled QuickTime again thinking I would be able to install 7.7.6 and discovered I did not have the installer in my downloads folder.

10. I did not save the page I found the installers so I am currently without QuickTime Player.

Hopefully my issue has been clearly explained.

Hello again jacumba,

Thank you for the second reply and link to a possible solution for my issue. I'll be looking at the link and I will get back to you sometime later, I hope. With my luck the computer gremlins will decide to do something really nasty to me.;-)

Hi Jacumba,

Note: This is my second attempt, the first edit to update my reply returned a message that the edit could not be saved.

I did use Windows 7 Control Panel\Programs and Features to remove QuickTime Player from my computer so I skipped that part of the direction to Litesleep. I did check for the files QuickTime.qts and QuickTimeVR.qtx in C:\Windows\System32 going through first manually and then by using the search feature both methods did not find the files.

I will have to wait a bit to run the Windows Installer Clean-up Utility.

Hello again Jacumba,

I tried the complete process recommended from Cannot install QuickTime to XP Pro SP3 and I still cannot get 7.7.9 to work. Hopefully the next version will work and I will not run into any Quicktime formatted material.

Thank you very much for assistance, the computer gremlins are proving to be a nasty bunch.