iTunes Won’t Close on Windows 7

This one was an easy fix though took me a bit to track down. Start -> Run -> services.msc and disable the Bonjour Service. Either through a bug in the music sharing component of iTunes or just a “helpful feature,” it won’t let you exit iTunes while the Bonjour service is running.

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  1. Ry Strohm-Herman says:

    Apple’s software under windows is a constant headache for me on my users’ machines. I regularly disable the itunes helper service, bonjour, and the apple updater.
    Funny story, I somehow ended up with a machine with only the apple updater on it. it would occasionally update itself, but had no other apps to update. Made me giggle. 🙂

    • Noah Krohn says:

      It seems to keep getting worse as time goes by though. It used to be at least semi-reliable but it’s going downhill. Apparently there are even issues cropping up on the Apple platform as well so it seems like it’s not just limited to Windows.

  2. Noah Krohn says:

    It seems to keep getting worse as time goes by though. It used to be at least semi-reliable but it’s going downhill. Apparently there are even issues cropping up on the Apple platform as well so it seems like it’s not just limited to Windows.

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