The Cellar - View Single Post - Apple to launch iTunes for Windows this month

Undertoad · 10-21-2003, 06:30 PM

So it turns out that, on my installation anyway, iTunes for Windows silently starts up two daemons at boot time, that take up 5 MB each. One says it's an iPod service and the other says it's an iTunes "helper".

I don't need a music library manager to require a 5 MB "helper" of any sort, and I don't really appreciate a 5 MB iPod service becoming a part of my system when I don't own an iPod.

The iTunes "helper" will terminate with Task Manager but the iPod service won't, saying "access denied". Fuck that kind of noise. I'm de-installing this thing, and will soon be recording all my vinyl albums onto reel-to-reel 1/4" tape. Where they can't possibly get to it and the signals will finally be mine all mine.

10-21-2003, 06:30 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	So it turns out that, on my installation anyway, iTunes for Windows silently starts up two daemons at boot time, that take up 5 MB each. One says it's an iPod service and the other says it's an iTunes "helper". I don't need a music library manager to require a 5 MB "helper" of any sort, and I don't really appreciate a 5 MB iPod service becoming a part of my system when I don't own an iPod. The iTunes "helper" will terminate with Task Manager but the iPod service won't, saying "access denied". Fuck that kind of noise. I'm de-installing this thing, and will soon be recording all my vinyl albums onto reel-to-reel 1/4" tape. Where they can't possibly get to it and the signals will finally be mine all mine.