Have a Windows 7 Enterprise image and just discovered that Windows Media Player seems to keep taking over file associations for .MOV files. I have no problem with WMP but it's unable to play a lot of them! QuickTime Player will open them up and play them just fine. Sure enough, when I look at the QuickTime settings, Windows Media Player is the default player for MOV and several other formats that are typically opened with QuickTime. I tried using Group Policy preferences to change the file association from WMP to QT and that worked, sort of. The problem is that I'm trying to adjust the behavior of media files when viewed in a web browser (the browser help object?) and not just the standalone player. When I changed the above setting in GPP, if I click on a link to a MOV file in a web browser, the web browser now tries to download the whole video--huge delay, then QuickTime player starts up and plays it. Normally it should just start streaming the video immediately. Anyone else experience this and know a better way to fix this en masse. Do I have to push out a registry setting change for QuickTime as opposed to working with default file associations? Thanks, Sir_Timbit

Click Start=>select Default programs or Start=>Control Panel=>Programs=>Default programs There you can make QuickTime the default player for the file types that choose.