iPodService.exe killing cpu usage

Yesterday I reinstalled Windows on my machine and I didn't have my old version (6.x) of iTunes, so I downloaded 7.0.2. After installing it, a Windows service named "services.exe" cpu usage shot up to 60-80% and iPodService.exe was taking the remainder, rendering my pc unusable. First I tried to end services.exe, Windows won't allow it (also prevents you from lowering it's priority). So I forced iPodService.exe to end, and instantly services.exe went back to 0% cpu usage. I uninstalled iTunes, restarted, and reinstalled, same exact result. Undocked my iPod (3rd gen, 20gb), uninstalled and reinstalled again, and everything was fine. Put the iPod back on the dock and I'm back to square one. I'm guessing there's not much I can do other than rollback to a previous version and try again next time. I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem or had any suggestions.

Home Built Athlon64 3400+ Windows XP Pro

Posted on Nov 9, 2006 11:37 AM

18 replies

polydorus

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Nov 26, 2006 7:38 AM in response to Praetorian85

Glad you are up and running again. I also have lots of letters allocated to card readers and an external drive, but I haven't had this problem, I guess I was lucky. 🙂

hjmaier

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Nov 26, 2006 10:19 PM in response to polydorus

You didn't say if you have a network drive but
presumably you checked this out as well?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499

This solved the problem.

Thank you for your help 🙂

Best regards
hj

Sarius Author

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Nov 28, 2006 10:10 AM in response to hjmaier

Unfortunately it did not solve my problem. I read the article and the symptoms didn't match. I decided to try it anyways since this is the first Windows install where I didn't change the drive letter for the iPod from the usual H to something like Y (no drive mapping being done, I just have several partitions). Before I even changed the drive letter, the iPod was mounted and seemed to be okay. I actually had time to update my playlists for the first time since my first post. But then out of the blue iPodService.exe started sucking up CPU usage again. I managed to remap the drive letter and I restarted. The issue was there as soon as I got into Windows again. Glad some of you have the issue resolved 🙂

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