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SOLUTION to pathetic Ping junk in Windows iTunes 10.0.1

How to fix the ping junk for Mac has been floating around for a bit, but so far, no one has posted how to fix it on Windows... Until now!

So, here's how:

Enter the following commands in a Command Prompt window or the 'Run' dialog box.

"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt hide-ping-dropbown 1
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt show-store-link-arrows 1
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt disablePingSidebar 1

If you're on a 64-bit version of windows, use this instead:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt hide-ping-dropbown 1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt show-store-link-arrows 1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt disablePingSidebar 1

Hope this helps a few people!

Message was edited by: David Wolf1

Windows 7

Posted on Sep 25, 2010 4:48 PM

46 replies

turingtest2

Level 10

272,795 points

Mar 25, 2013 5:36 PM in response to Katrina S.

Hi Katrina.

You're probably already done it, but if not I suggest you exclude your library folder from AV scanning. AVG seems to be involved in most of the recent "vanished library" threads, but not all. As far as I can tell iTunes gets tripped up in the act of saving a new temp. copy of the database and then renaming it as iTunes Library.itl. AV is the most likely candidate I can think of for interfering with file operations.

tt2

SOLUTION to pathetic Ping junk in Windows iTunes 10.0.1

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