The Bonjour service has been disabled.

I get the same message and cannot get my airtunes to work. Windows XP, iTunes 8.01 (thought the .01 might have a fix).
Very frustrating.

I have the same problem, and wher run the command you sugest I get this:

DNSService call failed -65537

Hope you can help me.

I had this problem. Under Control Panel/Programs and Features, I selected Bonjour then selected "repair". All of my shared libraries came back.

And still no solution? Common apple too many people are having this issue. And I wanted to get an Apple TV....

This was a really straight forward fix, I don't know what you guys are looking at. I think the Key is close iTunes before doing the reinstall. Here's the full instructions:

http://doggydish.com/general-tutorials/19-how-to-fix-bonjour-for-itunes-on-windo ws-xp.html

That was one of the first things I tried and it hasn't worked for me. I am on windows vista though. Bonjour Service starts for a short bit and automatically stop again. I don't know why it keeps doing this.

I have had the same troubles with the Bonjour service on Windows Vista. I found that if you go to the Control Panel, go to administrative tools, and from there go to services if Bonjour isn't on the list. You will find Bonjour there and can start, restart or stop it from there.

In addition to the DoggyDish tutorial (which I would like to hear more feedback on). It seems iTunes has come out with a new version 1.0.6 for Bonjour. You can go to Help > Check for Updates, to force an update. That might be another solution.

here's the answer to this problem guys

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1567?viewlocale=en_US

Hello,

I tried all the above mentioned advices to activate Bonjour Service. Nothing worked. I found a different solution now:

Go on >start >run and type in the following string:
netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

Afterwards download the latest version of Java (Free Download)
http://java.com/de/download/windows_xpi.jsp?locale=de&host=java.com:80

Unbelievable but it worked. Now Bonjour is activated and Air Tunes and iPhone are able to communicate with with iTunes.

This worked for me, so I hope it does for you too.

Good Luck

i cant install itunes 8 because my bonjour application wont uninstall, whenever i go to remove it, it says it cant be removed. i dont know what to do about it and my ipod wont work without itunes 8.. does anyone know what to do?

Exactly the same symptoms here. Bonjour is set to autolaunch in XP's Services, but it dies immediately upon launch. So something is preventing Bonjour from operating properly, which then in turn leads to an iTunes message (which can be ignored, if you don't try to access some other iTunes library over the LAN, which is exactly what I'm trying to do...)

Thanks to the pointer to this thread. It is indeed where I found the solution, but it wasn't installing an older version of the executable, but disabling IPv6.
The moment I had disabled IPv6 on all network interfaces, Bonjour kept running, and iTunes was its old self again.

This is with WinXP Pro SP3 plus whatever security updates are available from M$.

Latest everything that Apple has for Windows these days.

Glad that for the most part I use Macs. Never thought of AddressBook as a killer app, until I tried to do mobileMe syncing of my addresses into a Windows machine. Yikes! Windows address book software (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc.) are essentially unusably inflexible.

Now if Apple would finally produce a netbook that runs for over 6h in real terms (9.5h rated), and costs less than $400 delivered and weighs under 2 lbs. like that eeePC 1000HE, then I could shed Windows. The hardware of eeePC is all I need for that sort of use, except Windows is a NIGHTMARE, even with cygwin installed and after upgrading to XP Pro.

There's no machine Apple offers that can do this, even if price is not an object, because the 17" MBP has maybe the battery life, but it's much too big and heavy, and the Air, well... maybe a bit faster, bigger footprint (I don't care about thin, I care about footprint), not enough battery life, and about 4x the price. Nice executive toy, but not what I want to have on a tiny table down at a coffee shop where I have a 40% chance that within the course of a year someone will spill their brew over it.

Seriously thinking of doing a Hackintosh here, particularly since I got an extra OS X license...

Ahhhhh.... After 5 days of dealing with this I figured it out (at least in my case)
All I had to do was disable Vista's UAC (User Account Control)

You will have to look up how to do it. It is very easy and I hated that stupid thing anyways.

Now everything works as it should.

PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE A GOOD WORKING UPDATED ANTIVIRUS AND FIREWALL BRFORE YOU DISABLE THIS FEATURE IN VISTA

I struggled with this problem (or a very similar one) for MONTHS before I stumbled upon a simple solution that worked for me.

Disable Officescan realtime anti-virus

Not sure if it was the files that were being scanned in realtime, or if it was the firewall built into the realtime scanner that was causing the problem.

I did not have this problem before I upgraded to iTunes 8, even though I did have the anti-virus running before that.

In some cases, I could get iTunes to start without the "The Bonjour service has been disabled. Bonjour is required to share music with others. Please re-enable the service to use this feature." error, and I could connect to my remote speakers.

Usually, if I started iTunes first thing after a reboot, it would be fine. But then as I loaded other stuff, started my VPN (even stopped the VPN), and then exited iTunes and went back in, I would get the error, and then when I clicked OK, iTunes would start up, without the remote speakers.

So almost like a "latch". If I can get iTunes to start successfully first thing after a reboot, and I leave it open, then it works fine. But if I do other stuff first, then try and start iTunes, OR if I ever do other stuff and then exit iTunes and try and go back in, I get the dreaded Bonjour error listed above, and then the remote speakers are no longer visible in iTunes.

Not sure what the "other stuff" was that caused the Bonjour error when subsequently starting iTunes, but I believe it had to do with my VPN connection, which is just an ordinary windows XP network connection. Even if I stopped the VPN before starting iTunes, the damage had already been done, and I would not be able to start iTunes with remote speakers anymore until I did a reboot. (Note that my VPN connection is ordinary windows XP connection, not one of the 3rd party VPNs such as Juniper that is known to have problems with Bonjour.)

Then one day, my virus scanner was interfering with my web browsing (kept saying legitimate pages were virus risks - this has been happening more lately.) So I got annoyed and disabled the Officescan realtime anti-virus engine.

I then noticed shortly thereafter that iTunes would ALWAYS start up without the bonjour error, and I can ALWAYS see the remote speakers now!

So, must be some combination of something the VPN was doing (starting and stopping it, or just starting it), along with what the Officescan realtime anti-virus was doing.

My circumstances may be somewhat unique, and may not apply to others that are getting this bonjour error, but it just goes to show that turning off the virus scanner can fix this error, at least in SOME cases.

In the past, I was somewhat dismissive about people blaming the virus scanner for errors - seems like a "typical" excuse. But in my case, it solved the bonjour error! (I see that disabling virus scanner was recommended early on in this thread, and I WISH I had tried it sooner! I did try a bunch of other stuff recommended here, but not that.)

Going forward, I can play around with trying to get the virus scanner running again and seeing if there are some exceptions I can create for the scanning and for the firewall (BTW, my windows XP firewall is OFF, and I have a linksys router.)

At least I know what is causing the conflict now.