Save Quicktime Settings with Mandatory Profile

[Guest TimeTraveller]

Greeings, not sure if this should be with server or XP group, but here goes.

 

I have Quicktime player installed on XP Pro machines. Latest SPacks and

updates applied. In Win2003 R2 Domain, and users have mandatory profiles

and run at user level. Problem is getting Quicktime settings ( in the

Quicktime applet in control panel ..ver is 7.3 or thereabouts ) to stick.

For example if I open up the Quicktime Applet in control panel, and want to

uncheck Play Movies automatically or set Mime settings so that Quicktime is

default MP3 player, I can check and uncheck these settings, however when I

close the applet, the settings are lost.

 

I need to find a way to get these settings to stick, not for the user, but

for me as domain admin. The only way I have found to make them stick, is to

temporarily make the Domain Users administrators on a workstation, start the

Quicktime applet, make the changes, logoff and remove domain users from

Workstation administrators group. I could spend the next week doing this but

I think there must be a better way...

 

I am trying to find out where these settings are saved so that I can apply

them via the users mandatory profile, but have come up against a brick wall.

 

I have tried:

Registry -- setting all Apple and Quicktime locations I could find to Users

Full Control

<mand.profile>\Local Settings\Application Data\Quicktime - Users full

control

<mand.profile>Application Data\Quicktime - Users full control

Setting the Quicktime and Apple folders to Users\Change permission in

Program Files

I have also tried copying profiles that did work on the workstaion to the

server and making them manadatory profiles that are called by user accounts,

but the settings are not applied...they just revert to the default Quicktime

ones.

 

Any suggestions

 

I am stumped. I cannot figure out how to make these settings stick. I need

to do this because a particular application that uses Quicktime Plugin in

IE7 casue IE7 to freeze because Quicktime automatically checks for updates

and this seems to cause the whole thing to freeze at 100% CPU until killed

by Task Manager. Once I disable this setting in Quicktime the Web applet

works a treat.

 

Thank you for reading this rambling treatise.

 

Time Traveller