Install iTunes without QuickTime

Posted on September 16th, 2008, by Joel 26 Comments

When you download iTunes, it has a whole bundle of softwares with it. iTunes is one of the best music management softwares out there with superb album management coupled with album art browsing and some nice trendy features. It will be more useful for people who use ipods and like to sync their ipod with the PC.

Unfortunately most people do not like QuickTime an Apple audio playback and encoding plugin. Instead most use QuickTime Lite or QuickTime Alternative.

So here is a tip to install iTunes without QuickTime.

  1. Download and install QuickTime alternative if you haven’t already got it. If you have it already skip this step.
  2. Download iTunes installer.
  3. Unzip iTunes installer with WinRAR.
  4. Inside you will find five .msi files such as, AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi, AppleSoftwareUpdate.msi, iTunes.msi, iTunesSetupAdmin.msi and QuickTime.msi, DELETE QuickTime.msi.
  5. Open command prompt in admin privilages (in Vista) and navigate in command prompt to the unzipped folder, and type the following command :
    msiexec.exe /i iTunes.msi /quiet
  6. Thats all enjoy iTunes without the added hassles of QuickTime.

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