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Feb 11, 2007 4:29 PM
by: Rick Gontarek
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iTunes won't recognize authorization (Vista compatibility issue?)
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Jan 30, 2007 10:02 PM
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So I updated to Vista today. iTunes seemed to work fine with it, except for one thing: Whenever I try to play one of my purchased songs, I get told that my computer is not authorized. So I enter my password and am told that my computer has now been authorized. I try to play the song again. "Your computer has not been authorized." Dang.
I try deauthorizing and reauthorizing, closing and opening iTunes, restarting the computer. Nothing works. What should I do?
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Re: iTunes won't recognize authorization (Vista compatibility issue?)
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Jan 30, 2007 10:14 PM
in response to: Chunleela
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To get it to work I went into the iTunes folder in Program Files and the right click on iTunes and Run as Administrator. Then go in an Authorize. It Worked for me.
MBP 2.16GHz/2GB ,Power Mac G5 Dual Dual-Core 2.5GHz, Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0GHz
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Re: iTunes won't recognize authorization (Vista compatibility issue?)
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Jan 30, 2007 10:19 PM
in response to: PowerPCMan
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It worked, thank you so much!
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Re: iTunes won't recognize authorization (Vista compatibility issue?)
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Jan 31, 2007 6:05 PM
in response to: Chunleela
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Even better...
From Vista, right click on the iTune.exe program icon located in the iTune folder in the Program File folder and select Properties. Click on the Compatibility tab and enable the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox. Click on OK.
Next time you run iTune it will automatically run under administrator privileges, this fixes the problem until Apple comes up with a Vista only version.
BTW, I ran into similar problems with other XP prgrams that would not run quite well under Vista. The same trick fixed all issues.
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Re: iTunes won't recognize authorization (Vista compatibility issue?)
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Jan 31, 2007 10:08 PM
in response to: lamboguy
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Nice
MBP 2.16GHz/2GB ,Power Mac G5 Dual Dual-Core 2.5GHz, Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0GHz
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Re: iTunes won't recognize authorization (Vista compatibility issue?)
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Feb 1, 2007 10:20 AM
in response to: lamboguy
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iTunes only needs administrator privileges once to write the authorization to disk (Vista appears to have locked the old "My Music" folder). After that, you can run it normally so you don't have to deal with the UAC popup every time you start iTunes.
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Re: iTunes won't recognize authorization (Vista compatibility issue?)
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Feb 11, 2007 4:29 PM
in response to: lamboguy
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I am having the same problem after upgrading to iTunes 7.0, but I am running XP. I tried running iTunes under sdministrator, but it does not recognize a password that I supplied. is there a specific password for accessing my PC with administartor rights? Thanks in advance.
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