Comments on: iTunes for Windows

By: Sijan Khadka

Sijan Khadka — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:12:15 +0000

iTune is great player when used with iPod especially for download podcast etc… If u don’t have or not using with iPod, then there are two programs; iPodService.exe & iTuneHelper.exe running as a background process, which can be disabled to free some precious RAM/Memory.

iPodService.exe is simply a hardware ( iPod devices) detection & maintainace program. To disable this, (XP) Type “services.msc” in Run Command. Find iPodServices and disable it.

iTunesHelper.exe is supposed to speeds up iTunes when it starts, and also monitor for connected iPod devices. To disable this, (XP) Type “msconfig” in Run Command. Find iTunesHelper.exe in Startup Tab, Uncheck it.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:32:43 +0000

Adding to Joe7Pak, you have to make a blank text file, then rename it to iPodService.exe (make sure that in Folder Options you can view all extensions).
If you don’t do this, iTunes (at least version 7) will attempt to reinstall the iPodService. Using a blank text file with that name, iTunes assumes the service is installed.

By: Joe7pak

Joe7pak — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:48:20 +0000

How to shut off the ipodservice.exe leech:

1) How is it that MS allows a service set to “disabled” to be reenabled and started??? I say this is a security problem, and MS sucks.
2) How is it that Apple will ignore a user’s wish that something be disabled and then start it up? Apple sucks.

Goto c:\program files\ipod\bin. Rename ipodservice.exe to ipodservice.exex or something else. It will never bother you again.

By: silent77

silent77 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:59:30 +0000

Disabling the service stops it for that session but it restarts itself even when disabled. It does it either when itunes starts or when windows reboots, not sure but it still starts itself even when disabled.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:00:45 +0000

hello, I have a little problem… my itunes doesn’t work when I start the program, (I see in Win. Task Manager) olny open in W.T.M. for few seconds … then the program is shut down… how can I up music to my Ipod ???
please I beg you… looking for some help, answer to chong_d01@yahoo.com for any help

sorry for my english

By: Wogan

Wogan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just a heads up: it’s prefer.

By: John Mark Harris

John Mark Harris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Did you restart your computer after the install? ITunes CD burning won’t work until you do.

By: Mutan

Mutan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

itunes is the worst player ever imho, because it is designed as if the user is dumb. For dumb user it may be that the best music player is itunes, but even windows media player does a better job than itunes. It is just so lame. But Apple did a good job on windows, cause compared to its mac version windows version is so faster. Maybe it is because it is running on a windows machine which is almost always faster.

By: Jason Z

Jason Z — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How to stop the iPodservice.exe

Go to your control panel > Administrative Tools > Open Services > Find iPodService.exe and right click on it. Stop the service and set it from Auto or manual whichever its on to Disabled. This will keep it from starting and attacking CPUs and killing god or whatever it does.

By: Davey

Davey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What iTunes really lacks, in my opinion, is the ability to move/change the layout properly. Ideally, removing the Genre bar, and placing the Artists list on the left would be possible, but alas its not.