Fixing the Qttask.exe No Disk Error…
Every now and then when I am sitting at my Windows XP system, an annoying error message just pops up out of nowhere. The title bar is a seemingly random four-digit hexadecimal value followed by “qttask.exe - No Disk”. The text of the message says “There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive XX:.” At the bottom is the typical Cancel, Try Again, and Continue buttons.
The most annoying thing is that none of the button choices do anything to actual remove the error. The error message cycles back and forth showing an error message first for drive XX:, then for drive YY:, back and forth, over and over, at least 16 times.
Yes, that’s right — 16 times!!
That’s when I decided to do something about it.
But before I destroyed it, I had to find out more about it.
The qttask.exe program is a simple program that lets Apple’s QuickTime software (often bundled with iTunes) show up in the Windows taskbar. To me, the taskbar only needs to store the system’s volume control and be a place where I get a visual indication when I get mail. To hëll with everything else!
You’ll find solutions all over the ‘net that tell you (1) which registry entry to edit to stop qttask; (2) what option in the Control Panel to set; (3) to deselect the checkbox within the QuickTime software that says to display the control in the toolbar; (4) to remove and reinstall. None of that advice really matters or works. You think simply deselecting the checkbox will actually stop it from running in stealth mode?! Ha! Sooner or later, just like that bad apple MSN Messenger (that uses Microsoft’s own questionable sticky tactics), qttask will also eventually pop back.
The solution: Use the Task Manager to end the qttask process. Rename the qttask.exe file in your QuickTime directory to something else; you can even delete it as it is not used to play or view any QuickTime-associated data. Reboot. Simple!
Here is the soluton.. 1) Be shure to “Clear Menu” in “Open Recent” from the File Menu in Quicktime Player 2) Open the (hidden) folder: “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QuickTime” 2) Right-click on the file: “QuickTimeFavorites.qtr”, choose “Properties” 4) Enable checkmark on “Read-only” in Attributes, click “OK” 5) No more recent file list in Quicktime
6) Good Luck!
My problem “Qttask” started 2 restarts ago (about 10 minutes) I searched “Qttask computer bug” online and this site/posting came up first on list. I re-named Qttask to something els and BAMMO!! FIXED!:-) Thanks RDL!! I hope this annoying bugs stays away Forever. :-)peace
Thanks for solving the “quicktime.exe - no disk” problem. I renamed the qttask file - and also copied the quicktime.qts file from windows\system32 also into the Quicktime directory. Quicktime now boots without the error message. The problem came about after installing the new AOL 9 SE software - which puts the new Quicktime software in place as part of the upgrade -complete with the problem. Thanks, RDL!
great thanks the renameing worked
Clearing the recent file mmenu worked for me. Thanks for the tip, Upham. You don’t have to rename the qttask. When I turn it off in the preferences it goes away in the task manager itself.
Hi Rich, I’m a bit of a moron on this stuff so would you please give me the actual steps to rename the qttask.exe file in the QuickTime directory including the bit about the Task Manager? Thanks
Do you know how to get rid of this MpfTray.exe warnihg that keeps popping up every time i log on to my computer. If you could help that would be great!!!!!!!!!!
don’t know if this will help, or if it’s been posted as I am too tired to read all these from trying to figure this out for myself and only partially reading your input, but, before I started quicktime, I put a disk in my flash card reader. I then opened quicktime…no error. Then, I cleared the recent menu with the card still in the reader, closed quicktime, removed the disk, and relaunched quicktime……ta daa no error! hope this works for you all.
Well, my fix to this annoyance was to simply acess the preferences in Quicktime for the taskbar and deselecting the launch to taskbar setting, this fully eliminated the anoying Windows Disk Error Message upon restart of Windows. The only problem I have now is, if I manualy open the program on the desktop it freezes up and forces me to go to the Windows task manager to stop the process, this only happens while logged into the internet via AOL. I suppose it wouldn’t matter what serviice your using to access the interent but I don’t know this for sure? In any case after many reboots the problem is completly gone…no more error.
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