Answers to FAQs
How do I stop a media player taking over all my file types?
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The information in the table below shows default file types that should be associated with the specified media player. Unless you would like additional files associated with the media player, you can uncheck and therefore disassociate the remaining files presented. The instructions below help you to retain
default filetypes only for each of the three major media players.
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How-To Change File Types |
Associated File Types
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| RealOne Player
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Open the RealOne Player and Select
Tools, Preferences. Click Media Types in the left
pane, and check the file types you want RealOne Player to play
by default from the list on the right (uncheck the file types
you don't want RealOne to play).
You can uncheck everything else unless you wish to use
Real One Media Player for additional file types. |
- Real Flash (.rf)
- Real text (.rt)
- Real audio (.ra)
- Realmedia-vbr (.rmvb)
- Realmedia (.rm)
- Realpix (.rp)
- Real video (.rv)
- Real text 3D (.r3t)
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| Windows Media Player
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Open the Windows Media Player and
Select Tools, Options. Click the File Types tab.
You can uncheck everything else unless you wish to use
Windows Media Player for additional file types. |
- Windows Media file (.asf)
- Windows Media Audio file (.wma)
- Media Audio/Video file (.wmv)
- Windows Audio file (.wav)
- Video file (.av)
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| QuickTime Player
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Open the Quicktime Player and choose Edit,
Preferences, Quicktime Preferences.
In the QuickTime Settings dialog box, select File
Type Associations from the drop-down menu.
Uncheck Notify me if other applications modify these
viewer associations and close the window. This will prevent
the annoying windows popup asking about file association types
for Quicktime. |
Select Macintosh file types
Uncheck the other two types.
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