installed itunes 10.5, no longer can connect to itunes store now?

I have followed every suggestion in this thread after uninstalling/reinstalling and nothing has worked. I found a thread for an older version of Itunes but it wasn't it was the 10.5 version. Any more suggestions?

I did the winsock reset

checked all my security settings

ports

You name it I did it and nothing works, the closest I got was a the itunes store loading in plain text and that happened once.

I even did a system restore and when I went to open Itunes it said a specific was file was newer and could not load

Well I found a solution for my problem. Since I tried all the great fixes posted in the community which worked for the majority & wish one of them would have worked for me I found a site that has every previous Itune version and downloaded a previous one and the problem is fixed. I can't beleive people have been posting about this problem for over a week and Apple has not created a fix, it was left to users to provide the fixes for us. So if you are in my shoes and the fixes listed did not work use this site to download another version. The one bad think is since I upgraded to 10.5 and even though I removed all the components I did get an error and had to delete the most recent library.itl file. None of my music is showing in Itunes so I have to import it in.

http://ipod.about.com/od/advanceditunesuse/a/history_itunes.htm

ok im having problems with itunes after the new update and now its not working correctly, it doesnt conect to itunes store, when i try to backup my ipod touch the loading bar just freezes. and it wont connect to the itunes store the loading bar just loads have way and freezes, and when i try to close itunes it wont close!!!!!

please i need help!!!!!!!! I have windows vista home basic 34 bit

I started having the Store issue, which ALWAYS showed and worked and never had trouble accessing or getting a blank page... that started happening. (always think live search when typing is a bad idea)

Seems some apps on my iPod, conflict with iTunes 10.5.

I had added back a few, by download and via iTunes, but next time I connected iPod, there was problem with iPod showing as a device, and with iTunes Store.

Removed the 4 apps I had added/reinstalled, and now back to normal.

I don't know if it was the combination or if it was Skype or photo retouch/editing or one of the others.

I use to have 4.1GB "Other" also and that is now a more comfortable 1.1GB of space.

Me thinks 10.5 and iOS 5.0 need a ".1" added! and apps need to be better tested to be certified.

NY Times "newstand" would not work on 4.3.5, or would but could not by synched, could not be moved to another iPod screen. So basically broken and may have led to other problems. These apps that work with iOS 5 but are not backward compatible, or the reverse situation, they aren't really 5.0 compatible.

- might want to use trial and error with some.

For me, I have to wait for Windows and iTunes to settle down, then connect iPod only. And when the iPod device would "vanish".

OK I had the floowing error Blank Iunes istore nad 50% appelmoble useage in woindws 7 on itunes 10.5

and fied it this way

the appale mobel is fied by

In windows 7, click on your start menu, go to accessories, right click on the command prompt icon and choose "run as administrator". Once it opens, type in the following command...

netsh winsock reset.

then the blank sreen is fix by fllwoing the insutcetions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034

this resest your host file.

After this my itunes store worked great and appale moble ran at about 2%

After getting not so helpful advice from the apple support line, and reinstalling 10.5 3 times, the winsock fixed my itunes store problem. Thanks very much

Thanks this worked now to only fix the syncing of itunes to my ipod with music i rename ..

I have tried all of the suggestions in the thread but nothing has worked. How frustrating. I couldnt find Cloud Care which was the only suggestion that I didnt try. Could it be called something else?

Ok, after NO HELP from Apple, I've finally fixed my issue thanks to those in this discussion. I used Microsoft Fixit to remove all Apple products. Then I ran the netsh winsock reset as an administrator. Here is where I found my issue, once I restarted my computer a message would pop-up stating the VLP or VLS or something was not configured correctly. As a good MS customer, I trusted this message to fix it. After weeks of frustration and re-installs I decided to click "No", don't fix the VLP thingy. I re-installed iTunes and guess what folks? I now have access to the iTunes Store!

Hope this helps someone else, because I had just about enough of non-help from Apple!

Resetting winsock worked for me. I had tried everything before. Uninstall; reinstalled ( a few times) Removed McAfee, Quicktime...three hours later I gave up.Thank goodness this is behind me.

Just wanted to thank you for the link to the old versions of itunes, I got rid of everything itunes/apple related, dl'd the 10.4.1 version, and after dealing with a small previous library issue everything works and all my music/vids were still on the comp!

Did your play counts make it during this transition?

Tried it, didn't work. I have Windows Vista not Windows 7, but I did get the message that winsock had reset successfully.

So does everyone, in addition to not getting into the iTunes Store, have iTunes ask for your password every time you open the program?

This is SO annoying. And the Apple tech support person had the nerve to say it must be my internet connection - even though she directed me to this discussion thread! Boy, a lot of people's internet must be down...at the same time...who coincidentally all recently updated iTunes. Yup, couldn't be Apple's problem.

Well, when enough of us can't make purchases in the iTunes store, maybe they'll notice...

Thanks for the info. i had the same problem, blank itunes store. this worked great

Brilliant, after days of frustration doing the 'winsock reset' worked for me instantly. Huge thanks.

napotoo