I understand that apsdaemon.exe is causing problems for lots of people because of the amount of system resources it takes up (around 95% in my case, meaning my pc won't do anything else) but can anyone tell me what it actually does, as I've had to shut it down, but am curious as to what it won't be doing if it's not running?
PC, Windows XP
Thanks! This worked beautifully. I compiled a program called nothing.exe that literally does nothing -- it's basically just an empty program. I substituted that for APSDaemon.exe. iTunes opened immediately, and seemed a little disappointed at first that APSDaemon.exe wasn't doing what it was supposed to do (i.e. take over my CPU), but then gave up. iTunes plays as normal, and my iPad remote works fine, too.
Thanks to DocDocUK I wishshould have thought of changing the program name.
Personally I think any company that uses a stealth process to start another process (thus preventing you from taking it off the startup list) which then eats my processors (I have 4 and it eats 75%) in order to shove advertising material up my screen ought to get something clipped.
"When making changes to the registry I enter the text - not used - at the start of the path.. so it looks like this:
not used C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\APSDaemon.exe"
This does work, however you lose the ability to preview songs in the iTunes store.
Hey,
I had the problem on Win7-x64 with apsdaemon too: once i started itunes, closed it and wanted to start it again, i had to kill the process apsdaemon.exe before i could restart itunes again. Even after the latest itunes update, still no luck.
Today, i tried to review the problem and found that during the first startup of apsdaemon it tries to connect to nwk-unbrick2.apple.com:443. apsdaemon was blocked in my firewall. After I allowed apsdaemon to talk to the internet, i can close and reopen itunes normally.
Greetings, TalkingHead
Here's one explanation of it.
Thanks Crispin but that doesn't help in XP as Apple push wasn't there to uncheck?
Very nice, xsinisterxchaosx. It certainly can't hurt anyone to try.
Is the prioity change staying with it between reboots? Any side effects?
I changed it to "StupidAPSDaemon" . I tunes works like new,😀 and i can still use other programs without loosing my cpu!😎 Yippie! 😉
So, I returned the registry entry back like it was and on the next start of iTunes I got the accept policies notice and all my custom EQ settings were gone. Was that punishment?
apsdaemon.exe
