iTunes

[iolair]

This is an iTunes question, but there is no iTunes forum, so I thought I'd try here. When I check task manager or process explorer, I see that iTunes loads iTunesHelper.exe, iPodService.exe, Bonjour.exe, and AppleMobileDevice.exe.

These programs take up 25MB of RAM. Okay, I know that's not much by today's standards, but is it really necessary to load these at boot? Can they be set so that they only start when I start iTunes? (Usually about once every two weeks).

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
I have read many postings that say to remove Bonjour as it is a resource hog and can cause odd problems.

I see no reason not to disable all of those services ( unless you do a lot of copying of iTunes content to your iPod, the iPodService is pretty useless)





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[mscallisto]

I Agree, remove them all from startup.

iTunes should take a bit longer to load since it's not staying resident in memory from startup.

If you're not happy with the results then re-add them to startup, either all at once or one at a time.

sam

 

[linney]

Most of them sound like Services, if they are set for "Automatic" as the Service Startup Type you could perhaps change the Startup Type to "Manual".

 

[iolair]

Thanks for all the replies. I'm going to try the set the services to manual and see how it goes. Thanks again.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer