Fucking iTunes.

[loop]

I give up.

I've tried everything I can think of short of reinstalling Windows.

The issue:
iTunes stopped working. Just wouldn't come up. It'd sit in the device manager, but that's it. No screens.

So i did what anyone would do - tried a repair thru the control panel. It hangs. I try uninstalling everything apple-related on my system, rebooting, manually deleting shit, and then reinstalling. It hangs on "registering itunes automation server" and sits... and sits... and sits. I left it overnight, even - and it still was sitting there. I've tried all sorts of little tweaks to try to get it to work, disabled AV, everything.

Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it? Nothing I'm googling is working.

 

[Viggy]

That particular problem is not one I've yet had with iTunes. Naturally it is only a matter of time. Try using resmon to see what connections it is trying to establish, then check your routing thereto?

 

[nSpectre]

iTunes is a poorly programmed, bloated piece of shit. I've had a very wide array of problems with it on a wide array of hardware. But not the problem you're encountering.

 

[loop]

That particular problem is not one I've yet had with iTunes. Naturally it is only a matter of time. Try using resmon to see what connections it is trying to establish, then check your routing thereto?

... as in connections outside the system? there should be none. that registration it's trying to do is some kind of internal service registration.

 

[Viggy]

Process Monitor (Windows Sysinternals: Documentation, downloads and additional resources) to trace the various iTunes related processes? Protip: immediately pause the monitor and filter out registry key open/close/write/query/whatever operations.

 

[Edofnor]

nobody else has a zune and i can't hook mine up anywhere b/c all of the connections are for ipods

but at least the software is decent

 

[Kiint]

Buy a Mac, iTunes works great.

 

[Psyclone]

it just works

 

[Ddrakon]

itunes is probably the biggest reason i'm not an apple fan

 

[Data]

Process Monitor (Windows Sysinternals: Documentation, downloads and additional resources) to trace the various iTunes related processes? Protip: immediately pause the monitor and filter out registry key open/close/write/query/whatever operations.

Do this first. The one you want is actually Process Explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

If that doesn't work, there's a way to pull a stack trace using the Windows SDK... but it's pretty involved. I can get you pointed in the right direction at least.

 

[Suilenroc]

Has nobody managed to hack that shit yet for an alternative way to put music on ipods?

 

[Snake{TS}]

when you re-installed. did you install to the same directory or a different one?

 

[loop]

different directory.

 

[aur0ra]

itunes is junk, thanks apple for shit software and the borrowed hardware. That company could fuck up a cup of coffee.

 

[FUBAR|Ascain]

Has nobody managed to hack that shit yet for an alternative way to put music on ipods?

MediaMonkey » Free Media Jukebox, Music Manager, CD Ripper & Converter iTunes replacement that will sync to pretty much any music player I've tried to date, including apple products.

I'd just ditch the iTunes and switch, you'll wonder why you ever put up with it after.

 

[SoulHunter]

iTunes needs to be uninstalled a particular way

follow this article and you should be ok, also try to "netsh winsock reset" in an elevated cmd.exe

 

[rha74]

I have the same issue. Fuck Apple and fuck the dead ass Steve Jobs.

 

[CelticMojo]

LOOP!

 

[cael]

Buy a Mac, iTunes works great.

yup, itunes is awesome, i dont know what problem u are talking about, it's the best media player hands down

 

[CelticMojo]

I like winamp myself.