Can I temporarily disable a program or change how a media file?

I have a file of meditation which allows you to play a few audio and show patterns on the screen. I had just downloaded in a saved file, a shortcut on the desktop and which would use to play the program.  I think he ran in Windows Media Player. Not so long ago, an Itunes program icon appeared on my desk. I don't know if it was automatic or I received a message to upgrade to another program, and who has been installed as a by-product. In any case, when I try to run this program, Itunes appears so there is no video and the file continues to repeat, or another audio file starts.  I tried all the settings in Media Player and Itunes (like ensuring that the repeat option was turned off), but nothing has worked. And instructions on these programs are very confusing.  I thought that if I could temporarily disable Itunes, things could go back to the way they were.  This isn't a very elegant solution.  Can someone tell me if I can temporarily turn off Itunes and how would I do?  I found no information on what in the index or on Microsoft sites.

Or did someone knows a better solution? It's not very elegant.

Hello RGrannus,

ITunes opens it is because when it was installed it edited the registry entries shell; because when you open a program, windows searches the file extension in this database called a registry hive and these keys in the registry hive for the specific extension, are programs that open up towards the top of your file. Most likely, you can change this programme starts by going to the location where the actual file (not the shortcut) and right-click on it and clicking Open with. Here, you can choose from a list of programs or find a program and you can check the box always open with this program.

If these steps do not work, please reply and tell me which program you want to open with and give me this is the location on your computer, so that I can write to let you select a registry key in the registry.

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