Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 7th edition- QuickTime error

For those of us who are non-native English speakers usually use a dictionary to know the meanings of the new words we come across, and now to make life easier, we have online dictionaries as well as CDs that come with some dictionaries that you can install your computer.

One such dictionaries is Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 7th edition that comes with a CD.

You may sometimes find the following error while trying to access your dictionary:

1. When you click to open the dictionary, you find the following error:

“The QuickTime Plug-in requires the QuickTime System extension version 5 or later.”

If you click “Cancel” the dictionary still opens, but then when you try to listen to the pronunciation of a word, the following error pops up:

ERROR function ……..:
……………
……………

One day, my friend asked me if i could solve this problem, i googled it and to my surprise i got a peculiar posting!
I read it with a little skepticism, but finally it solved.

Here is the solution:

1. Go to the program’s folder, it should be in “C:\Program Files\Oxford\OALD7″.
2. Rename the “plugins” folder to another, for example “oaldplugins“.
3. Go to QuickTime’s folder, it should be in “C:\Program Files\QuickTime”
4. Copy the “Plugins” folder and paste it in OALD folder (the same folder as in the step 1)
5. Run the program, you will not get any error again.

Hope your problem was solved.
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