diff --git a/controls/menu.c b/controls/menu.c
index 89bb876315f..d371637eb3e 100644
--- a/controls/menu.c
+++ b/controls/menu.c
@@ -4274,20 +4274,6 @@ static BOOL SetMenuItemInfo_common(MENUITEM * menu,
 BOOL WINAPI SetMenuItemInfoA(HMENU hmenu, UINT item, BOOL bypos,
                                  const MENUITEMINFOA *lpmii)
 {
-    if ((lpmii->fType & (MF_HILITE|MF_POPUP)) || (lpmii->fState)) {
-       /* QuickTime does pass invalid data into SetMenuItemInfo.
-        * do some of the checks Windows does.
-        */
-        WARN("Bad masks (0x%08x) for type (0x%08x) or state (0x%08x)\n",
-             lpmii->fMask, lpmii->fType,lpmii->fState );
-    }
-
-    /* is the app setting both MFT_BITMAP and MFT_SEPARATOR (which is wrong)? */
-    if (lpmii->fType & (MFT_BITMAP | MFT_SEPARATOR)) {
-      WARN("fType contains MFT_BITMAP and MFT_SEPARATOR, API violation\n");
-      return FALSE;
-    }
-    
     return SetMenuItemInfo_common(MENU_FindItem(&hmenu, &item, bypos? MF_BYPOSITION : 0),
 				    (const MENUITEMINFOW *)lpmii, FALSE);
 }