IT IS PURE EVIL! I believe John saw it as the BEAST when writing the book of Revelations!
I am being silly of course, but ain't nothing silly about all things iTunes related! AND ESPECIALLY "applemobiledeviceservice.exe" which I recently read it isn't needed for your iPod to work with iTunes, and so can be uninstalled entirely! And good riddance, eh?
I hate the iTunes CLAN of computer slowing programs! It is really sad too, because I really do LIKE my iPod Nano!
Its sad that such a good product has to be forced to be used with such terrible software like the iTunes "crapware" family! And its only because Apple goes so incredible far, and beyond anything rational....for what?---to ENSURE THEY GET MORE MONEY, and making sure people ONLY can use iTunes to load music onto their iPods! Its very much like "Microsoft", and it makes Apple hypocritical!
iTunes is an overcomplicated, computer properties taxing...(like nothing else)..frustrating program and is one big headache when you are first learning how to load your iPod up with music with it!
Its the only software suite that actually will cause my relatively new custom built might powerful "Desktop PC" 8 Gigs of RAM, and (drum roll)----a "quad-core" 2.66GHz CPU, "The INTEL Q9450" and before I recently got my new iPod and downloaded iTunes, I never EVER experienced my system being slowed down or tangled up by ANYTHING....including the latest & greatest PhotoShop CS4 bundle! My system and my CPU would handle that like nothing at all!
But LOOKOUT...for a MEDIA PLAYING application....called iTunes! Might as well call it LOONYtunes!
Its great how it just INVITES ITSELF into your computer's "start-up" programs, right??!
Most programs will ASK YOU whether or not you would like the program "to automatically run or start when Windows Starts?? And you can choose YES or NO!
Not iTunes! It doesn't even give you the choice, and wont even go away when you try to make it go away! You must do like me....and resort to extreme measures!
Its called MSconfig, which you just type into the RUN box just like I spelled it... msconfig = then press ENTER.
You have to be careful, so get some help if you need it. But if you are smart enough, its not hard to figure out....and just choose Selective BOOT. And you can go into the 'Start-UP menu' where you can see all the programs that are set to run at start up, and disable them! Also go into Services and disable all the ones related to APPLE and iTunes!
I liken this to "taming" the BEAST, and teaching iTunes some proper behavior, more like good little programs know already!
So essentially I just keep iTunes in a quarantine box so to speak...... except for whenever I need to load up the iPod nano with new stuff.
