Service ‘Apple Mobile Device’ (Apple Mobile Device) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.

Soypisto75, you rock! Had been trying to fix for a while, and your suggestion did the trick. And very straightforward. Thanks much.

Thank you! This worked for me... on Win 7 - 64 bit / iPhone 5S

Thank you soypisto75. I followed your instructions exactly and they worked. I now have iTunes again.

The only thing that happened was that I unistalled AMDS (apple mobile device support) 3 times but it never got removed from the add/remove list in the control panel. But this didn't hinder the successful process. Thank you for telling us what AMDS stands for in your instructions. I would not have know to look for 'apple mobile device support' in the control panel if you just wrote AMDS.

Also, before I clicked FINISH I plugged all my apple devices into the computer (separetely) so the drivers would get installed. I'm not sure if I didn't do that, if I would have had a problem when I went to use another device, so I didn't want to take any chances.

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!

Thanks soypisto75

You're right, that's it!

Thanks again🙂

Perfect solution, pisto! Gracias!

soypisto 75 - You are awesome!!!!!! Thanks a lot.This fixed the problem.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/msvcr80-dll-not-found-missing -error.htm

this helped me!

Thank you so much my man! you did a great great job

I had a problem with apple mobile device in vista 32 (yes ..i'm probebly the last person on earth that have vista)

and now every thing run just beautiful

Shalom

Thanks soypisto!

Apple - that was ridiculous. You don't test your software updates properly, so I spend 3 hours over two nights mucking around to fix it. Including several attempts to uninstall AMDS. Great way to turn customers off your expensive products. Drip drip drip and eventually customers get frustrated enought to try somewhere else.

bless you soypisto75...this worked like a charm. thanks so much.

soypisto75 Thank you so much!!

AMDS stayed in the add/remove program list after I uninstalled it though (even after closing and opening it again, and restarting the computer) but I still tried to finish the procedure following your instructions, and it worked. So yay! Thanks!

I'll add my thanks to your help both in posting your experience and taking the time to go into the details so that others might benefit.

It worked for me but why does it have to be so arduous (I ask rhetorically) just to do an update?

Thanks, soypisto75!!! One small additional thing that I had to do. I was able to uninstall successfully all the "Apple" programs except for the "Apple Mobile Device Support" one. That kept producing the same error that I had experienced previously with attempts at reinstalling iTunes. Success came when I tried to uninstall it not through the Windows 7 Control Panel "uninstall" function, but through the CCleaner uninstall function. That worked.

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to post solutions. A huge blessing.

Great help Soypisto75, works as you discribed ... I am glad you found a way ...

Many thanks for the guide from Germany - JO

Thank you soooo much soypisto75. Many of us may be amatuers with some computer processes but despite the 'less than encouraging advice' from others, you offered a simple and very effective way of solving the problem. Thank you. We are not all idiots and it had nothing to do with my administrator or security settings, there was obviously a problem with the Apple update and your suggestion was the only solution.