Uninstall And Reinstall iTunes

There are certain issues with your iPod such as iPod not showing up in iTunes, iPod not listing down under USB drivers in device manager etc, and these issues can be fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes from your computer. Now when I say uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, i don't mean that you have to just remove iTunes and reinstall the iTunes setup file. Well that's true, but you need to take care of few other components of Apple as well while doing this.

The step by step instructions given below will help you uninstall and reinstall iTunes the best possible way Apple recommends.

UNINSTALLING iTUNES

1. Go to Control panel in your XP computer and then choose Add or remove programs.

2. It will take sometime to list down the programs installed in your computer and as soon as it is listed, look for iTunes. Select it and then click on Remove/Uninstall. It will then start to configure your iTunes installation for removing it from your computer and hence it will take some time. Just wait until the uninstall is complete and finally you might get the message to restart your computer. I recommend you not to restart at this point as we are not done yet.

3.After iTunes is removed from that list, you need to look for another program named QuickTime and if you see it, remove/Uninstall it as well.

4. Similarly look for programs such as Apple Mobile Device Support, Apple Software Update, Bonjour etc.
Once all these programs are removed from your computer, now you can go ahead and restart your computer.
After your computer restarts, we will go ahead and install the Latest version of iTunes from Apple website.




INSTALLING iTUNES

1.Download iTunes from HERE

2.In the download page you will find DOWNLOAD NOW button, click on that and then when it ask you to RUN or SAVE, click on save and follow the onscreen instruction until the installation is completed. Do not change any default settings while the installation goes on.

3.Once the installation is completed , you will get a window with a message that iTunes installation is complete.

4.restart your computer again and after it restarts, you can go ahead and launch iTunes by clicking on iTunes icon and then connect your iPods to your computer.


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