"iTunes Cannot Run Because Some of its Required Files are Missing"

it's work for me

microsoft say :

in french :

, j’utilise également Windows

10 pc et membre de la communauté comme vous. Travaillons ensemble pour régler

ce problème.

Essayez de désinstaller complètement Itunes à l’aide du programme de

désinstallation de Revo, accédez à ce lien ci-dessous pour télécharger

l’application.

https://www.revouninstaller.com/download-profes...

-Une fois téléchargé et installé, cliquez sur Désinstallation forcée

-Rechercher ou rechercher les Itunes

-Cliquez sur Suivant pour le désinstaller complètement.

Une fois cela fait, redémarrez votre ordinateur et réinstallez l’application

Itunes en utilisant ce lien ci-dessous.

https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/itunes12/001-...

Une fois téléchargé et installé, redémarrez votre ordinateur et vérifiez.

The only option that seems to work is to uninstall version 12.12, install older version https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1816?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US which will not like your old library but if you Apple Software update and update ONLY to 12.11 it will work. IGNORE the 12.12 update and other updates until the situation is resolved by Apple.

I changed all my Windows language settings from 'English (United Kingdom)' to 'English (United States)', signed out and back in again, and then iTunes opened. No need to uninstall or reinstall. It's a crazy bug that the Microsoft store pushed onto the iTunes app.

This morning (23rd September) Apple pushed a new version of iTunes for Windows via the Microsoft store that appears to fix the problem. Suggest you try upgrading to version 12121.1.54014.0. It worked for me, good luck! :-)

It's fixed now with release 12.12.1.1 which I downloaded from Microsoft Store !!!

I have the same problem. To give more detail, this is with iTunes version 12120.6.54012.0 downloaded from the Microsoft Store on 21st September 2021. It appears to be a critical bug in the new version. Apple will need to release a fix in a newer version, I do not believe there is any user workaround for this.

If you uninstall the 12.12 (latest version) fully, then reinstall version 12.10.11 (available here : https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2065?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US), everything goes back to normal, your library, settings etc... That's what i did on my Windows 10 (French Language) when i got this pesky error.

As advised by @daletur328, JUST IGNORE the 12.12 it doesn't work right now.

I believe you can also change you language settings in Windows to English (United States), reboot and install iTunes from windows store and it will also work.

I tried this and it did work, however I don't want run my PC with language set to English (United States)

This can be fixed by changing the windows user interface to english US

Hope they fix this soon

For German users: I downloaded Vers. 12.11.4.15 from https://itunes-64-bits.de.uptodown.com/windows and it works fine with German Win 10.

Thank you very much for the post above. I changed the language settings from English ( UK) to English ( USA), signed out and back again as instructed above. It worked like a dream. My iTunes program is back. Nothing lost. What a relief !

Thanks, my language is set to English, but UK-English not US-English.

Bit of a diversity fail if they only tested it in US-English, although we have similar bugs int he application I develop at work, so I guess I shouldn't be too critical. ;-)

The good news is that with this much attention, I suspect a fix is on it's way soon.

I can't uninstall iTunes. It does not appear on my programme listing in control panel, and the target file looks really strange - no location on my PC. I have deleted Bonjour and software support, but the installer won't run - says iTunes already installed an must be installed before I can re-install.

How can I delete the current (non-working) version!