how to activate bonjour in windows 10

If I understand correctly, it may be more of an issue of how to access "services.msc" in Win10?

Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE > TASK MANAGER > Select the tab "Services" ... at the bottom of the tab is also a link to open the Services control panel.

Hope that helps.

Bonjour Print Service does work with Windows 10.

For a time, I couldn't get Bonjour Print Services to run in my new ASUS Windows 10 PC. Guys at the Microsoft store told me to install the latest iTunes for Windows, but that didn't do anything. I could see the mDNSResponder.exe in the Programs File/Bonjour directory, and a mdnsNSP.dll and dns_sd.jar, but no Bonjour Printer Wizard.

So I went to Apple's Bonjour Support page and downloaded the latest Bonjour (v 2.0.2.0, file created 5/18/2010). I chose Run in the download dialog. After Running the install program, I found a new directory, Bonjour Print Services. Inside that directory is the PrinterWizard.exe. I double clicked that and the Printer Wizard did its thing, finding my ancient HP Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet 1012 printer. The Wizard tried to find a print driver, but none of the drivers came close. I finished up the Wizard as best I could. I then went to Windows' Settings/Devices/Printers and found a new entry for "Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1012." I clicked on its properties and allowed Microsoft to find a driver, choosing the LaserJet 1015. Eventually Bonjour got the message and I was able to print on the HP LaserJet 1012 connected to my AirPort Express's usb port. When you look at the Properties of the printer installed with the Bonjour it should show you your Apple AirPort's mac (media access protocol, not "macintosh') address.

Glad it helped.

By the way, I found a location to download the Windows 64 bit installer package for Bonjour. I found an older version of Bonjour but it didn't fix the issue. The following post by 007me has a more current version of the separate installer: Re: WIndows 7 64-bit bonjour service fail to start. Tried solutions, never work. Once I installed the 64 bit version, all was copasetic.

I'm not a programmer or developer but the separate iterations of background processes is sometimes intentional in order to have different apps/processes run in separate threads or memory (most common example is Chrome ... keeps windows/sites running in the background) ... others like Service Hosts are network related, etc. Since some are crucial to system/network operations, they auto-start and are driven by the OS so can't be "ended" unless via safe mode or manually disabled/uninstalled.

Thanks so much for this! And it was helpful that I, too, have the "ancient" HP 1012 LaserJet...the little printer that could!

THANK YOU!!! I was about to throw the Airport out the window. I can't believe what a PITA it was to get a stupid printer to work. Why is this so bass ackwards. 😠