Sign In To Use This Computer for Automatic Downloads

Still same issue. Been two months since I posted MY issue. Thanks everybody for TRYING to help. Apple, where are you?

I agree all these fixes are just bandaids, we did not make this issue happen an update did. The ultimate band-aid fix would be to revert to a working version before the update causing this issue.. I know going back is out of the question because of all the new features and iOS 5 compatibility. Apple we are waiting, please fix...

-> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Visited that site several times, Apple did give me feedback in other past issues... 🙂

Wow, after months of frustration, the "Run as Administrator" solution posted by bono.hu did the trick for my Windows 7 computer. Thanks! Sorry for you Mac guys out there who are apparently still looking for a solution.

My Mac has been free of this unwelcome prompt for several weeks now. Here is what I did: I launched iTunes and signed in to the iTunes store using my Apple ID and password. I went into "Account" and clicked the "Reset all Warnings for Buying and Downloading" buttom at bottom. I clicked DONE. Then I clicked my Apple ID which is displayed at upper right, and then clicked SIGN OUT in the window that appears. That's it. I can now reset Safari all I want and the prompt does not return -- or not yet anyway! Good luck -- it worked for me.

Itunes 10.5.3

Safari 5.1.2

Macbook Pro(mid 2010) 10.7.2 OS X Lion

This worked for me, Thank You Very Much Artimon!!! I have an app that deletes non-favorite cookies when i quit safari and once i included the apple.com cookies to my favorites, IT WORKED--no more prompts for user ID and Password. Thank you so much...

I have had the exact same issue on my mac for weeks, it's been driving me nuts.

I'll give Mrteee3's suggestion a try as none of the other workarounds have resolved this.

for some reason, when we use itunes, a cookie is created in Safari. If we delete this cookie from Safari, something gets reset in Itunes and the prompts appears.

SOLUTION: Dont delete the apple.com cookie created by Itunes in Safari 🙂

Just what I needed thanks!

Absolute Fix for me on the Mac. I am running Lion 10.7.3 iMac and I am in the habbit of resetting Safari now and then. The Cookie info is what finally did the trick thanks soooooooooooo much!!! 😁🙂😁🙂

I was annoyed with this issue for months, tried various fixes posted in the discussion boards and none worked, UNTIL I tried Mrtreee3's fix. No more automatic download prompt when starting iTunes!

Running Windows 7 and iTunes 10.5.3. Logged into iTunes Store, clicked my email address in the upper-right corner and signed in to View Account. Scrolled to the bottom and clicked the Reset button next to "Reset all warnings for buying and downloading".

I get this same or a related problem regularly as well. I'm at the point where if I get this error (or another incorrect error) in iTunes I'm just going to dump iTunes/iPod/iPad completely and re-purchase everything from Amazon. Last night I had a "You aren't authorized to listen to this album on this computer... Please log in to authorize", I log in again, and it says "This computer is already authorized". This happens a few times a week. Getting realy tired of this crap in iTunes with music I've already paid for. I haven't had a single problem with the Amazon environment/player/downloading whatsoever. Apple (and it's fan-boiz) need a wake-up call...

Thanks to all for the suggestions. I can confirm that the issue is with deleting cookies. I am on OSX Lion, using Firefox. In the past few weeks I started using the Mac version of CCleaner (awesome app), and deleting all of my browser cookies automatically was causing the password prompt issue in iTunes.

I added itunes.apple.com and apple.com as "cookies to keep" in CCleaner, and presto, problem solved.

tatin's suggestion on Nov 22, 2011 12:45 PM did the trick for me.

Windows Vista

iTunes 10.5.2.11

Seems a little odd that there has to be a button to "Reset all dialog warnings," though!