>>You can go to Control Panel and then Quick Time and deselect the option for an icon in the SysTray. At least this is how it is for XP Pro.
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>Yup, it was my first guess. But, when I went into there, to my big surprise, there is no Quick Time icon.

Run msconfig.exe and de-select anything you see that might involve Quick Time in the Start-Up section...I think this works for all Win versions except 2k....