Quicktime taken over VISTA tiff file association

In both Firefox and Windows Explorer on VISTA, the quicktime logo flashes across the screen and has become the default association on .tif files. I do not want that. My preference is Adobe Acrobat.

It could be that IE is opening a webpage that is setup to use QT for the .tif files. Have you looked in the Folder Options control panel under File Types to see what program is being used to open .tif by default

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I used this link for tiff http://www.nrl.navy.mil/content.php?P=IMAGES
QT was opening the tiff files. When going into the QT control panel Browser>Mime settings>Images-Still image files I was able to uncheck tiff, which held. I was also able to uncheck all the file types under File Types tab(Images-Still image files) in the QT control panel. However the preference would not hold. Went into Start>Set Program Access and Defaults that also was of no help.
The only way I was able to get QT to release the tiff's from the website I posted was to go into the Folder Options control panel for File Types and change the tif & tiff from QT picture viewer to windows picture and fax viewer.
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I used this link for tiff http://www.nrl.navy.mil/content.php?P=IMAGES
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The only way I was able to get QT to release the tiff's from the website I posted was to go into the Folder Options control panel for File Types and change the tif & tiff from QT picture viewer to windows picture and fax viewer.
So not sure why the QT control panel will not respond, there are other file types in the Folder options control panel on this computer other than tiff's that are still associated to QT, but didn't try changing them, perhaps that needs to be done?
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Excellent news, Bulent!
I hope Quicktime does not, later, try to take over again.
Good point ... next time you do a QuickTime update directly from the Website:
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