PC with a 1GHz Intel or AMD processor with support for SSE2 and 512MB of RAM.

Just wondering why iTunes is so persnickety. I end up rebooting, logging back in, then going to wash dishes or something while the dust settles. I know iTunes manages licenses for music, but does it have to dig THAT deeply to do it? I have other software with software license management (Splice, Arturia, Gobbler) and they don't require restarts. The only thing that makes me restart is Windows 10 updates, iLok license manager updates, and iTunes. Anyway, because of all that, I never restart Windows 10 unless I just have to, and I never 'have' to.

Maybe that's Windows Defender doing a new scan? I dunno. Rebooting itself is fairly quick in getting me back to the login screen, but with Creative Cloud, MS Office 365, and a few other things, it takes probably ten or fifteen minutes after getting to the desktop before the hard drive finally stops churning away. What in the world is so important about iTunes that it has to dig so far down into the OS that simply updating it requires a restart of Windows 10?Īs one who hasn't yet installed an SSD in my system, everything boots off a SATA HDD. So the way I see iTunes, it's basically just a bloated shopping portal and a library manager.

I couldn't sell the cards (even for $20) because nobody wanted them, so I decided to just go ahead and let iTunes nestle into my computer. Yeah, I let a hundred dollars worth of cards just sit there because I simply didn't want iTunes on my computer. I begrudgingly installed iTunes on my computer about a year ago to use a package of iTunes gift cards my mother got me for Christmas in 2016.

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