Alternative to Right mouse on mobile devices

Developing material for mobile and desktop devices.
In Captivate 6 there is the right-mouse click box which I've found to work nicely when inserted as a Web Object into iSpring or Articulate Presenter.
Question: I have not foudn a way to use a gesture on an iPad to emulate the right mouse (if there is such a way please let me know as this would b the preferred option). So I am thinking I will probably need to provide a keyboard shortcut as an alternative. Does anyone have a cleaner solution? The problem I have with the shortcut concept is that the student will need bring up the keyboard (if that is possible) before using the shortcut. Not a very fluid alternative to the right-mouse on the desktop.
Thanks for your ideas.

Hi, I'm one of the developers working on touch-screen support in Firefox. We do plan to add smooth pinch zooming in desktop Firefox, but we need to make some significant changes to our graphics code first, so it may take a while. When we're able to start work on pinch zooming for Windows desktop, we'll be tracking it here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789906
Pinch zooming does work in the experimental [[How do I install Windows 8 (Metro-style) Firefox?|Windows 8 Touch ("Metro")]] mode in Nightly, but the instructions for switching to Metro mode are out of date. To switch to Metro mode, follow these steps:
# Open Nightly on the desktop
# Click on the "menu" button in the Nightly toolbar (icon with three horizontal lines)
# Press the "Windows 8 Touch" button in the menu. If you don't see the button, press "Customize" and then drag the "Windows 8 Touch" button to the menu or toolbar.
(I submitted an update for the official instructions, which I hope will be approved soon.)

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This is the collection of various pieces of code I have tried adding to my files:
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   <meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" /> 
</style>
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<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
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//or//
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this.stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
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next_btn.height = 133 * .5;
//flash//
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next_btn.height = Capabilities.screenDPI * .5;
//flash//
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   <height>480</height>
   
</initialWindow>
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button.y = 20;
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titleBar.y = 0;
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN"
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>My Website Title and Slogan.</title>
<style type="text/css">

<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<img src ="image.gif" width=90% height=auto>
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta name="Keywords" content="keywords…" />
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center">
<p> </p>
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      <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
      
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        <param name="quality" value="high" />
        <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
        <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
        <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
        
        <div>
          <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
          <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
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    </object>
</p>
</div>
<div align="center"> </div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
I have tried various combinations of the code listed above, but nothing seems to be working. I am not sure as to the correct positioning of the code, and maybe that is the problem, or maybe it is because this code in not for CS4, or not appropriate for my project. I also do not know what code should be inside the Flash file, nor what should should be inside the Dreamweaver file.
Thank you in advance for any assistance!

There is no simple code to add that will display the same on all mobile devices....
you do know that the iProducts (iPhone, iPad, etc) don't display Flash at all, right?
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Adninjastrator

MenuManager in TableViewer does not work on mobile device (tablet with Win 8)

Hi
Welcome everybody This is my first post on this forum. I really hope you can help me out with this. It is kind of strange.... Ok, so I am developing RCP/SWT application, and it has to work on mobile device with windows 8 as well (10' tablet with windows Cool. So far so good - everything work pretty nice, except one thing that is really annoying. So I have this table, and user has possibility to use right click menu (context menu) on each row. Problem is that it does not work at all on mobile device. Right click on tablet is actually defined by pressing finger for longer period of time - then after 1 or 2 second menu should appear. Problem is that it does not at all. Funny thing is that when I connect a mouse using USB port to tablet I am able to open this menu Smile - it works completely fine. Menu works also with finger action when I press on empty (e.g. table without any data) I noticed that this issue is related with constructor style option SWT.FULL_FULL_SELECTION that is used for creating table. When I remove it from the constructor, right click works fine but there is not any data (no record is selected), so I can not perform any context menu action. Menu is dynamic, so depending on what data is loaded, the contain of menu changes. Main problem is that method menuAboutToShow is not called at all!. The code looks like that:
Table table = new Table(parent, SWT.FULL_SELECTION | SWT.VIRTUAL | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.MULTI);
table.setLinesVisible(true);
table.setLayout(myTableLayout);
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table.setHeaderVisible(true);
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tableViewer.setLabelProvider(myLabelProvider);
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cheers,
Pawel

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MenuManager in TableViewer does not work on mobile device

Hi
Welcome everybody This is my first post on this forum. I really hope you can help me out with this. It is kind of strange.... Ok, so I am developing RCP application, and it has to work on mobile device with windows 8 as well (10' tablet with windows . So far so good - everything work pretty nice, except one thing that is really annoying. So I have this table, and user has possibility to use right click menu (context menu) on each row. Problem is that it does not work at all on mobile device. Right click on tablet is actually defined by pressing finger for longer period of time - then after 1 or 2 second menu should appear. Problem is that it does not at all. Funny thing is that when I connect a mouse using USB port to tablet I am able to open this menu - it works completely fine. Menu works also with finger action when I press on empty (e.g. table without any data) I noticed that this issue is related with constructor style option SWT.FULL_FULL_SELECTION that is used for creating table. When I remove it from the constructor, right click works fine but there is not any data (no record is selected), so I can not perform any context menu action. Menu is dynamic, so depending on what data is loaded, the contain of menu changes. Main problem is that method menuAboutToShow is not called at all!. The code looks like that:
Table table = new Table(parent, SWT.FULL_SELECTION | SWT.VIRTUAL | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.MULTI);
table.setLinesVisible(true);
table.setLayout(myTableLayout);
createColumns(table, layout);
table.setHeaderVisible(true);
tableViewer = new TableViewer(table);
tableViewer.setContentProvider(myContentProvider);
tableViewer.setLabelProvider(myLabelProvider);
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contextMenu.setRemoveAllWhenShown(true);
contextMenu.addMenuListener(new IMenuListener() {
public void menuAboutToShow(IMenuManager mgr) {
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cheers,
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Hi
The "tap-and-hold" is not my functionality. It default SWT Table behaviour on tablet. In windows it self it works like that - to use "right click" you have to do "tap-and-hold". It is just the way it works on tablet I do not have any other application to test it, but I have several tables/tableViever in my application for presenting different results/data, and in all of those this problem appears

Design for mobile devices

Hi all, first time here, please be gentle with me!
So, I've got a site I designed and maintain for a client and
he recently had an enquiry asking if the thing could be viewed on
an O2 PDA (UK mobile phone company branded PDA). He, of course,
asked me, and I said I'll find out.
Currently I doubt the site will work - it's designed for the
web, needs (mostly) a mouse to navigate and is 800px wide so I
can't see any way it'd work on a phone! So I'm guessing I'd need to
do a WML version ... right? Or is there an easy way to make an XML
site work on mobile devices?
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password. Would that work on a mobile device?
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hide!
Greg

"GS_thing" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
>
> Currently I doubt the site will work - it's designed for
the web, needs
> (mostly) a mouse to navigate and is 800px wide so I
can't see any way it'd
> work
> on a phone! So I'm guessing I'd need to do a WML version
... right? Or is
> there
> an easy way to make an XML site work on mobile devices?
This article by Adrian Senior may help:
"Applying CSS from Screen to Print to Handheld"
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/designing_css.html
> Secondly would mobile devices work with the PHP script
that handles a
> members
> only area and subscription packages?
This one I can't answer, hopefully someone with more
experience at this may
help out :)
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The Xperia Z1 is the best mobile device I have owned so far.....but for one annoying flaw.....

OK, I have owned the Z1 for around 6 months now, and I have LOVED the product...I more or less have no complaints, and its become pretty much my favorite electronic device, except for my gaming PC : D
I use it day in day out, listen to the radio, watch video, surf the web, exepriment with all kinds of the incredible apps, and of course, play games (and it will be gaming that my comment is primarily about)
Thing is....gaming on the Xpeia Z1 is a GOOD experience....excellent GPU performance (though it gets HOT! ...really noticeably HOT..not warm....**bleep** it gets hot! : D), great screen, great sound with headphones (though the headphones jack tends to get in the way when holding the unit in landscape), and if playing without headphones, I find my hand covers the speaker and totally muffles the sound!
These are just small niggles, but nevertheless, things I notice, that I would desire to be slightly changed if I had the chance, but I realise they are issues with the hardware and design, so Im happy to wait unitl I get my next phone (likely the Xperia that comes out in 18 months when my contract is up!) and see how they are dealt with through the evolution of the series.
These are just mega picky things Ive noticed in an otherwise perfect design (for me....just my opinion).
However...the only thing that REALLY REALLY REALLY ticks me off, is a software issue....that has apparently been dealt with via the 'Immersive Mode' feature in Kitkat 4.4.4 (which I am running on my Xperia)....
That is the 'Soft keys' not disapearing in games, and taking up quite a large chunk of screen real estate.....in a very annoying place that depending on the game, can even quite easily be accidentally touched, kicking the unwary user out of the game,! (ARRRGHHH!)
Now I realise that proper support for 'Immersive mode' is actually up to the developers (am i right in thinking this?) and I have tried a couple of games that advertise support, and its all well and good, and works fine, also my comic book reader supports it, and so I get ALL my screen for books (rarely, I use HDX for that), documents and comics....and of course the built in video player has seemingly ALWAYS supported complete fullscreen without these **bleep** buttons getting in the way....
And its such a GREAT screen too....does anyone know exaclty WHY it is, that the Xperia series in particular sacrifices so much screen to these buttons while gaming?
All games Ive tried have the 'Top Bar' (with battery, signal and time etc..nto sure what its called officially)...automatically hidden..so why not the 'bottom bar?'..the menu keys? Especially since the strip of screen is so HUGE!!
To show 3 **bleep** buttons!
What really makes me wonder, is that even my Kindle Fire HDX (which I use primarily for actualy reading books/newspaper/articles) and that I consider an 'inferior' device in most respects..actually has a 'hide soft keys' feature...where in games and apps the 3 buttons and strip of screen are replaced by a very small and unobtrusive little tab...that you simply swipe out to expose the keys....
A GREAT solutuion!
Why isnt there something like this on the Xperia series?
I have deliberately explained myself fully here because I have become very frustrated wth this just recently, as I have been playing a lot of the brilliant games by the developer RORTOS...that makes impressive flight simulator games....games that (Particularly F-18 Carrier landings Pro 2) cannot run very well on my Kindle FIre HDX....
They play beautifully smoothly while maxed out on the Z1 though....(and the same goes for GTA Vice City, that I have been enjoying playing again on mobile on the way to work every morning : D...thanks Sony and Rockstar for a great start to my workday xD)
BUT these great games are being MARRED quite badly by those DAMNED BUTTONS!!
In F18 Carrier Landings Pro 2 and Airfighters (2 RORTOS games that are really superb if you like flight sims) several controls are positioned at the edge of the screen...and the soft keys are right in the way...so they are functionally gettiing in the way...
and whats more, they ruin the original design philosophy of the Xperia Z1...the design philosophy of 'OmniBalance'..because the game image is not equidistant from the left AND the right side...but shunted one side or the other, because of these **bleep** buttons!
(I hope I have explaiend this, and you can picture what I mean...it really irritates me : D)
Yes I am aware of a few apps that are available, both root and non root solutions.. but I have found them all too imperfect...just not good enough, too clunky, too much configuring and messing around to get them to work...and even then they have too much impact on other functions to be worth it for me...since i do use my Z1 for a LOT of different things.....
The ones Ive tried are fine as kind of Dev Tools...but I really love the overall design of the Z1...and I like to KEEP it beautiful and slick to use...as slick as it looks...(yep, I like the cosmetics so much, I cant even bring myself to keep it in a case xD...I just have to be careful with it...and its hardly got a scratch so far...just a few hairline type ones : (....
So...can Sony please add a little feature, like the small tab that I mention above on the Kindle Fire HDX, to hide those keys?
I have messaged RORTOS about them supporting Immersive mode fully, and they said they would look into it (of course they said that!), bur that most devices these days ALREADY hide the soft keys in games...and in my experience, thats true!
Out of 5 or 6 devices Ive played games on, i have to say that the Xperia series is easily the most effected by this issue.
and its ANNOYING as **bleep**...and I KNOW Im not the only one that thinks this...but I havent found an official Sony response (or indeed Android or Developer one) about what is likely to be done.
So does anyone have any news?
Does anyone know why one of the best screens and best GFX performers in a mobile device is still suffering from the soft keys being present at all times in games?....(except every now and then Ive noticed the keys are slightly camoflaged, as white dots....the strip of screen is still taken up, but the actual key icons are reduced to white dots (anyone else seen this?) but this just seems to happen randomly......sometimes it does that, mostly it does NOT...and besides, its not a real solution anyway...since a chunk of screen is STILL used up by it....
Please Sony, you use a custom Android, just liek Amazon do on the Kindle Fire HDX (though admittedly, not quite SO customised xD), and THEY can hide these keys without immersive Mode support...
Why cant Sony?
rant over...
I still totally love the phone..Im only going off on one like this because I love everything else about it...but this one thing I think is actually a pretty big deal.....so please address it ..
Please?
All the ebst
jim.
(PS I am also really harrassing RORTOS about supporting Immersive Mode too....if ALL the Devs supported it, then this wont be an problem (I suppose anyway?)....but Im not sure if there is an issue about how many people are actually USING KitKat 4.4.4...I would guess a LOT but perhaps not quite enough to make a special effort for?....anyway...Im not just picking on Sony : D)
rant really over.....for now.....

You had to have some kudos for the effort put in to your thread as week as the point you make.

Why can't I install iTunes version 10.5 or higher? I've tried everything suggested on this forum, my friend has a mac and she can't either and it seems like the main problem is the apple Mobile device.exe wont install and applesync

Hey anybody,
Neither myself (running on PC windows vista 32 bit) or my friend (on a mac) are able to install versions of iTunes around 10.5 or higher successfully. This leads me to believe the problem isn't necessarily with our computers and there may be something wrong elsewhere. I'm not a computer wiz but I have tried most of the advice on these forums e.g. Uninstalling and reinstalling, deleting temporary files, expanding files and trying individual downloads and more. I can install older versions of iTunes where they use to combine it with QuickTime with no problems however this is no good to me or my friend because only versions 10.5 and up come with support with iPhone 4S and that's what we need. I managed after several attempts to install iTunes 10.52 but without the apple mobile device so therefor the iTunes wouldn't connect to my phone or recognise it, apple sync notifier also has problems and fails to start.
Please can someone help me with this, I have tried everything on the apple troubleshooting pages so please don't link me those. Or please can iTunes and apple do something in an update that corrects this problem because I know many people are having similar issues. I only bought this phone for the music and at the moment I feel cheated because I wouldn't have these problems with any other phone because I'd just be able to drag and drop.

Hi there,
I had the same experience. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop, with Windows 7 Home Edition, 32 bit.
I tried to install iTunes 10.5 and it started installing, then, just before the end of the process, came up with the following error message:
"There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor."
Of course, no information on what the program that couldn't be run was! At first I tried the usual stuff, like scanning for viruses etc. but nothing doing. Then I started Googling. In the end, I uninstalled all Apple stuff from my computer. A lot of it I had to do manually, going in to the program files drive and deleting stuff from there, but some of it wouldn't delete as it was saying it was open in Windows Explorer. In the end, I managed to delete the iTunes folders by selecting one of my mp3 tracks saved on the computer and right clicking 'open with'. I then browsed my pc to locate the iTunes folders still outstanding and was able to right click and delete them that way.
Then emptied the recycle bin and did a restart before going online and downloading iTunes 10.5.
Thankfully it worked, but its taken me a good few hours and made me really quite tetchy! I've never had this problem before, so I hope this is going to be a one off.
One thing that doesn't seem to be working is that, despite how many times I tell it that my preference is for the iTunes Media folder to be located on my external hard drive, it keeps putting it back to the C drive! Didn't have that issue with the last version. Grrrrrr. Arrrrgggh.
Hope you manage to get yours sorted - this is affecting a lot of people by the look of things.

ITunes Match; a waste of time for mobile devices and the impatient

I recently subscribed to itunes match, aside from being able to upgrade a portion of my lower bitrate files, I am extremely dissapointed (as are many others I've read about having the same issues.)
First, getting all of my music on the server was a nightmare. I spent way more time then I'd like to admit tricking iTunes into accepting my data. Quite a bit of my library is in fact available for purchase in the itunes store, but only portions of most of the albums actually matched - the remaining portions had to upload. Fine, I'm okay with that aside from not being able to upgrade albums in their entirety, now I have some tracks at 256, others in the same album at 128 or whatever - I decided to selectively chose alums/tracks that I really cared about or didn't feel like re importing from disc in a few cases. Fine.. annoying, but not a total deal breaker.
I was finally able to figure out how (without apples help btw.. they didn't know this procedure when I spent an hour or so on the chat, screen sharing with a "specialisdt") to trick itunes into uploadeing all "waiting" tracks by doing the AAC conversion myself manually and then replacing the compressed data locally with apple lossless files (both m4a files) while retainging the compressed data on the cloud. fine.. I enjoy trouble shooting and problem solving, I was actually psyched to figure it out and be able to retain my high quality files locally without having doubles or redundant data in an archive elsewhere not within the iTunes data base. Fine. apple lossless is no wav, aiff, but I can compramise also in order to imbed meta data which wav is not able to do.
What I want is access to my entire library and to be able to either stream songs over wifi or 4g and/or download locally for when I'm off network in the boonies, etc. *side note: don't anyone tell me this isn't a streaming service and that it only downloads to the device because it in fact does... it's just intollerably slow more often than not. Now I can deal with that, that is either my cellular provider throttling me, or it's Apple's servers. I will assume a bit of both. also, don't tell me that matched content downloads faster then uploaded content.. that's BS, I've run the tests on multiple devices and there is no consitacy to it.. it all depends on the traffic on iCloud servers, wireless towers and size of the file/leanght of track, etc. Fine.
I've run the speed test, I've rebooted divices. I've reset/confirmed/adjusted network setting.. I've done most of what I could do on my end as a user. I can't seemlessly stream data on my unlimmited data plan from at&t from apple.. fine.. I get it.. regarless of my slow streaming issues - it's a first world problem.. whatever, I can deal.
My biggest gripe is that when I download either matched songs or uploaded content, it's is painfully slow to do so.. it's a waste of time.. manging the library on mobile devices takes forward thought and plenty of patience.. I might as well do this at home tethered to my desktop - convert to 128 to save space and accept my choices and deal with what I have loacally for the time when I'm out and about. Now whren I buy something from apple over the 4g network or even the edge network,... &*^% downloads lickity split.. *** apple .. fine, it's big business.. I get it.. I for one would have paid 100 bucks a year if this service worked as advertised.. maybe more.,.. it's awesome in theory, but is not realy for the limelight even still 2 years after the release.. hopefully it'll get better soon...
Now this works great in my home over laptop, apple tv, but over ipad and iphone.. not so much.. actually working fine right now as long as I don't change the track abruptly... figures after this long rant.... once I continue on my day I'm sure it'll go back to being a pain.
I'm going to use it at home, maybe on the run very ocasionally.. I guess that's what Apple thought we'd want, but they have been so misleading with this, and so abscent with trouble shooting an technical support that I've given up.. if I wasn't so in love with thier UI's and hardware (for the most part) I'd walk in time since steve jobs is now gone.
unless you want to wrestle with it for hours and hours, or just want to upgrade your low quality files and bounce.. don't waste your time people.. ^$^$ all that noise
It's too bad Samsung assinated Steve Jobs.. he'd never let this service be released uptil it was ready. in the future I may have to go to the dark side and get a galaxy tab and smart phone, a Dell.. window vista.. naaaa just kidding. *** apple.. p,lease sort your ^$%&7 out.
Done and done.
please fix this Apple, I want to love iTunes match, I really do.

Firstly, this is a user-to-user forum: you're not talking to Apple here.
Just saying it 'doesn't work' doesn't make it possible to offer any cogent suggestion - one would need a lot more detail on what you've tried and what the result have been - including your operating system details. However if the thing is actually faulty - this is rare, it works fine for most people, but it can happen - then plainly you need to contact the people you bought it from, or take it into an Apple Store if you can, and ask for a replacement or repair.

TS3694 When trying to download itunes onto my PC I get this message: Service 'Apple Mobile Device' failed to start. Veryify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.

ON my PC, I attempted to download the update to itunes. It gave me an error message that I wasn't able to do that (and I don't recall the exact words) but telling me to delete the old itunes and download the new update, so I did. But now when I try to update the new itunes, I keep getting this message: Apple Mobile Device failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services! It won't allow me to go any further! How do I fix this? What is the problem?

Go to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (Win XP) or Programs and Features (later)
Remove all of these items in the following order:
iTunes
Apple Software Update
Apple Mobile Device Support (if this won't uninstall move on to the next item)
Bonjour
Apple Application Support
Reboot, download iTunes, then reinstall, either using an account with administrative rights, or right-clicking the downloaded installer and selecting Run as Administrator.
The uninstall and reinstall process will preserve your iTunes library and settings, but ideally you would back up the library and your other important personal documents and data on a regular basis. See this user tip for a suggested technique.
Please note:
Some users may need to follow all the steps in whichever of the following support documents applies to their system. These include some additional manual file and folder deletions not mentioned above.
HT1925: Removing and Reinstalling iTunes for Windows XP
HT1923: Removing and reinstalling iTunes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
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