anthaeus1964

Q: itunes is using 100 % CPU

When Itunes is running it uses 100% of my CPU. Can somebody help me?

Windows XP

Posted on Aug 26, 2011 9:21 AM

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  • by kctrocks,

    kctrocks kctrocks Mar 1, 2012 4:36 PM in response to Tony Oresteen
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    Mar 1, 2012 4:36 PM in response to Tony Oresteen

    If you have a windows xp with 2 gigs of RAM, you should 1: try increasing the RAM to 4 gigabytes and 2: upgrade to windows 7, because the new versions of iTunes are optimized for Windows Vista/7, and less and less for XP. This should work. If not, go to Task Manager, view the processes, and click to sort by CPU Usage. see which ones are using how much CPU, and end the unneccessary ones that are using up 100's-10's MBs of memory.

  • by choddo,

    choddo choddo Mar 1, 2012 4:51 PM in response to WSWARTZ
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    Mar 1, 2012 4:51 PM in response to WSWARTZ

    Hmm. Odd. I certainly had all your symptoms but getting the network interceptor (NetNanny in my case) uninstalled cured it instantly. iTunes went back to normal CPU levels and the store within itunes started working.

     

    @kctrocks; that generic "what to do with an overworked PC" advice isn't very helpful in this case, I'm sorry to say.

  • by Tony Oresteen,

    Tony Oresteen Tony Oresteen Mar 1, 2012 4:54 PM in response to kctrocks
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    Mar 1, 2012 4:54 PM in response to kctrocks

    kctrocks,

     

    Sorry but your advice is pure BS.  iTunes is stated by Apple to be Windows XP compataible.  I don't need to upgrade my laptop to Win7 so I can load songs onto my 2005 5th Generation iPod. My laptop has the maximum ram it can hold (2GB).  I renamed and uninstalled all the BS bloatware crap that iTunes 10.5.3.3 loaded on to my system.  It's working ok now. 

     

    Expecting a user to do surgery on their computer to make an application run is not a proper way to engineer an application.  This is Apple's screw up and they should FIX IT NOW!!!!

     

    I'm going to try out some of these replacements for iTunes so that I can dump iTunes:

     

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/29716/heres-five-alternatives-to-itunes-10-for-ea sily-managing-your-ipod/

  • by BaboonLoveMonkey,

    BaboonLoveMonkey BaboonLoveMonkey Mar 1, 2012 4:56 PM in response to kctrocks
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    Mar 1, 2012 4:56 PM in response to kctrocks

    This isn't an XP or low RAM issue. It's that iTunes for Windows has some serious issues. I'm not sure you've been following what the actual problem is - it's a bug in iTunes 10 iCloud support that causes excessive CPU usage for many users, regardless of the version of Windows.

  • by OTown73,

    OTown73 OTown73 Mar 6, 2012 7:54 AM in response to anthaeus1964
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    Mar 6, 2012 7:54 AM in response to anthaeus1964

    For me the netsh winsock reset command worked temporarily and would go back to 100% CPU usage with iTunes open, and 50% usage when iTunes was closed after a few minutes. I have XP

     

    What worked for me was what another person posted earlier from Apple Support.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4123

     

    Download the Autoruns that is at above link, find out what other program is interfering.

    For me it was a parental control issue likes others here had. Mine was PureSight from

    Brighthouse. I uninstalled it and now we are back to 0-7% usage even with iTunes open.

    I needed another parental control so I downloaded Windows Live Family Safety and it

    seems to run fine with iTunes so far. A lot of work to do to figure this out, but worth it in

    the end. Good luck.

  • by BaboonLoveMonkey,

    BaboonLoveMonkey BaboonLoveMonkey Mar 6, 2012 12:02 PM in response to OTown73
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    Mar 6, 2012 12:02 PM in response to OTown73

    However I have no such software - only AV which I uninstalled and tried replacing twice with different AV software - still no difference, so I reinstalled the original AV. If iTunes cannot simply work as every other app does it is broken. It is at fault.

  • by choddo,

    choddo choddo Mar 6, 2012 4:35 PM in response to BaboonLoveMonkey
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    Mar 6, 2012 4:35 PM in response to BaboonLoveMonkey

    Well when you have lots of software that should behave in certain standard ways in order to keep the system running as a whole, you can't blame just one thing. Yes, when network comms are failing iTunes should degrade more gracefully and tell the user, not just go into a crazy loop. But I suspect these network filtering products may be misbehaving in some way or making a false assumption about how ip sockets are used by apps... definitely their innocence isn't proven for me. The fact you don't have one, but just about everyone else with this 100% CPU issue has had makes me think yours is possibly a completely different problem.

  • by Tony Oresteen,

    Tony Oresteen Tony Oresteen Mar 6, 2012 5:20 PM in response to anthaeus1964
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    Mar 6, 2012 5:20 PM in response to anthaeus1964

    RE: Otown73

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4123

     

    Look at all the software that doesn't work with iTunes.  It's their fault, not Apples.  Typical Apple BS.

     

    Did it occur to Apple that it just might be iTunes fault?

     

    So what is Apple doing about it?  Looks like nothing except blame others.

     

    Thanks for the link OTown73.

  • by BaboonLoveMonkey,

    BaboonLoveMonkey BaboonLoveMonkey Mar 6, 2012 10:05 PM in response to choddo
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    Mar 6, 2012 10:05 PM in response to choddo

    choddo wrote:

     

    Well when you have lots of software that should behave in certain standard ways in order to keep the system running as a whole, you can't blame just one thing. Yes, when network comms are failing iTunes should degrade more gracefully and tell the user, not just go into a crazy loop. But I suspect these network filtering products may be misbehaving in some way or making a false assumption about how ip sockets are used by apps... definitely their innocence isn't proven for me. The fact you don't have one, but just about everyone else with this 100% CPU issue has had makes me think yours is possibly a completely different problem.

    Sorry, are you actually suggesting no less than three popular anti-virus packages (the one I began with and the other two I tried) are faulty and iTunes is not? Perhaps I should run Windows without AV? :-D

     

    Or perhaps Apple could just fix iTunes since I experience zero even remotely similar problems in any other app.

  • by choddo,

    choddo choddo Mar 6, 2012 11:28 PM in response to BaboonLoveMonkey
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    Mar 6, 2012 11:28 PM in response to BaboonLoveMonkey

    Well kind of :-) . You don't need really network interception in AV. I certainly don't use any. I just use real time scan on files and keep my browser/acrobat/flash up to date.

     

    I do want NetNanny or similar back though because of the kids using the PC but theres a way to make that work.

     

    The fact that lots of products have a clash with this new iCloud and wireless sync of iTunes isn't that surprising since they all pretty much work the same way. If many of them have provided updates to resolve this (i don't know) that would suggest to me that iTunes is doing something new/different but still valid.

  • by choddo,

    choddo choddo Mar 6, 2012 11:51 PM in response to BaboonLoveMonkey
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    Mar 6, 2012 11:51 PM in response to BaboonLoveMonkey

    By the way, it seems it's not just iTunes. According to this thread, it looks like World of Warcraft has a similar problem with 3rd party LSPs

    http://www.killergaming.com/forums/showthread.php?4650-iTunes-10.5-Bigfoot-Netwo rk-Manager-broken-iTunes-%28workaround-included%29

  • by budman14,

    budman14 budman14 Mar 10, 2012 10:30 AM in response to japiohelp
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    Mar 10, 2012 10:30 AM in response to japiohelp

    Thank you very much for your winsock reset suggestion. It worked for me.

     

    You've saved my sanity, so once again... thank you.

     

    Glad we have people like you on here.

  • by OsabaMark,

    OsabaMark OsabaMark Mar 14, 2012 3:51 PM in response to anthaeus1964
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    Mar 14, 2012 3:51 PM in response to anthaeus1964

    itunes shouldnt be so much pain to use.Any chance of fixing your software Apple?

  • by Thomas Holder,

    Thomas Holder Thomas Holder Mar 21, 2012 9:07 PM in response to anthaeus1964
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    Mar 21, 2012 9:07 PM in response to anthaeus1964

    xp SP3 and Netnanny. Made "APSDeamon.exe" an exception in Net Nanny and all is well now.

  • by Blake1960,

    Blake1960 Blake1960 Mar 22, 2012 4:13 PM in response to Thomas Holder
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    Mar 22, 2012 4:13 PM in response to Thomas Holder

    The latest iTunes (version 10.6.0.40) has resolved the problem for me (Win XP SP3).  I don't run Netnanny, just Norton 360.  Prior to the recent iTunes update I was just opening Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) and killing the offending APSDaemon.exe.

     

    I had run the registry or whatever diagnostic suggested earlier in this thread to identify possible offending programs, but no offending entries appeared.

     

    Anyway, the new iTunes solves the problem for me.  So Apple was slow, but they did finally come through.  Don't let the small stuff bother you.  Life is good.  :

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