Here's what worked for me...

Here's what worked for me:
1) I opened iTunes and in Options, I selected iTunes as the default music player for my computer (it wasn't). (I even uninstalled RealPlayer and WinAmp.)
2) I uninstalled iTunes and iPod, and reinstalled using the newer versions on the Apple site.
3) I basically followed this advice:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=291183&tstart=0
Which was basically to leave my iPod connected to the computer while rebooting. The first 2 times it didn't work, I forgot to put iTunes in the start menu, so that it opens when I reboot. I put iTunes and iTunes Helper (whatever that is) in the start menu (I used WinPatrol to do so, available for free here: http://www.winpatrol.com/), and then rebooted, and after a couple of tries, like magic iTunes opened, recognized my iPod, and updated it, and then, for the first time, without freezing my system, told me it was okay to disconnect.
It even worked while still running my regular systray apps, like McAfee VirusScan, Ewido Anti-Malware, Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta, and SpywareBlaster, so those were not the issue. I get the impression you need to boot it once so it recognizes the iPod and does that handshake thing, and hopefully after that it'll always do the same. We'll see...
I hope this helps someone, b/c its been a frustrating day working through all this, and I know a lot of others are still trying to get it solved. And thanks to jcog for posting his solution, that helped me, and hopefully this will help someone else...
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

it worked until the next time I synced the iPod, and then back to the freeze up. Next thing I tried was this Microsoft help page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
which advises on several things, all of which seem helpful, but the thing still freezes up. I can sync the iPod, then the system freezes and I have to reboot. So, I now believe Apple will have to issue a patch for these bugs when using the new 5G iPods with WinXP.
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

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Hardware: Airport Express, Intel iMac 10.4, Belkin N1 Router
*The problem:*
When streaming iTunes music to my Airport Express, audio cut out after a few seconds.
Troubleshooting:
1) Moved Airport Express closer - no effect
2) Uprgraded firmware - no effect
3) Restored Airport Express to factor default - no effect
4) Then I wanted to see if there was some WiFi interference. Connected my computers to my network by ethernet rather than WiFi. Set my Airport Express as a new network (Apple Network XXXX), then connected my computer to the new network rather than my existing WiFi network. It worked! This told me there was something with my network causing the problem.
*The fix:*
So I went in to settings pages for my router to see what I could change. I ended up switching from 'g+n' to 'bgn'. I also disabled the option for 'protected mode'. Thats it. Everything is fine now. Hope maybe this helps someone.

it worked until the next time I synced the iPod, and then back to the freeze up. Next thing I tried was this Microsoft help page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
which advises on several things, all of which seem helpful, but the thing still freezes up. I can sync the iPod, then the system freezes and I have to reboot. So, I now believe Apple will have to issue a patch for these bugs when using the new 5G iPods with WinXP.
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

Finally, activation success! Here is what worked for me:

After 38+ hours
I bought 2 iPhones. For both of them I was porting a number over from Sprint (from the same account).
Selected the Family plan for activation.
Within an hour, the first iPhone was activated for all but incoming calls (My wife's phone).
The second iPhone I got the dreaded "Your activation requires additional time to complete"
I called every number that I could find. Almost everyone told me to wait. There were 2 calls where people actually did something to my account.
Here are the people who actually appeared to do something:
Called 1-877-777-4189 (I think. Either that or it was 800-331-0500)
Was answered immediately. Spoke with Nancy who transferred me to number porting services. (Which she said the number for porting services was 1-888-898-7685, so I would recommend calling them directly)
I spoke with Stephanie Engel (sp?) at number porting services.
She found that my Sprint number had not yet been transferred over properly. I had to give her my IMEI number off the back of my phone and the number off of my SIM card. After I gave her those she said she was able to activate my sim card. However it didn't change anything about the state of my iPhone waiting to activate. She transferred me to some iPhone activate people who were unhelpful.
Then I called 1-877-800-3701
Select option 3
Enter your order ID # as requested.
For mine the computer said that they needed additional information.
Then it put me on hold for a customer service rep.
I was on hold for a long time (30-45minutes)
Finally got a customer service rep.
He tried to activate it, and the first time it didn't work.
He had to put me on hold several times, had me power off and power back on my phone several times. Eventually he did something that made my phone activate. YAY!!!
If you get someone who tells you to wait longer, I'd recommend hanging up with them and calling back till you get someone who will try to help. There are people at this number who can help.
The customer service rep never asked for any additional information, so it was something he had to do to activate it manually.
I think the porting number issue had to be fixed before talk to the people at 1-877-800-3701 would help.
There is also a thread on at&t about this:
http://forums.wireless.att.com/cng/board/message?board.id=apple&thread.id=1453&v iew=bydateascending&page=1

Agreed!!
Same story......after waiting over 36 hours for activation, finally called 877-800-3701 AGAIN (probably the 4th or 5th time) and got an incredible CS person named Michelle who could not have been more helpful. She actually took the time to look at my account, saw that it was ready to activate, and went through all the steps to manually activate it. Whole process took about 45 minutes, but it was with someone from AT & T instead of waiting around all day for some magical email. Now, iPhone works like a charm and was worth the wait.
So to all still waiting for activation, keep calling the 3701 number. And keep doing it until someone takes the time to help you. It really does work......

Having trouble with your iphone6 not connecting to your car? here is what worked for me

Back up your phone!!!
Go to Settings>General at the bottom of the screen hit “Reset.” On next screen select "Reset All Settings." This will reset your locked screen, your internet passwords, Touch ID & Passcode, your zoomed view, battery percentage, etc. You won’t loose any apps or docs. Just go back and change them as you did when you first got the phone. Delete all the Bluetooth devices on both in your Car and on the iPhone (on the phone: go to Bluetooth>My Devices, click on the “i” at the right and click on "Forget This Device"). Shut down both the phone and the car. Restart the car and the phone. “Pair" your phone. Shut the car off and restart. Give it a few minutes to allow the car to update the phonebook.
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Agreed!!
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TS2756 Here is what worked for me for wifi

Change your hotspot device name if it looks strange as a wifi SSID. eg use "John iPhone" instead of "John's iPhone"
Got to Settings > FaceTime and scroll down to the bottom.
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Turn your phone off. (I think this might be important).
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Go to Settings > General > Cellular > Personal Hotspot and switch it on.
Try to connect to hotspot again over Wifi
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Agreed!!
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So to all still waiting for activation, keep calling the 3701 number. And keep doing it until someone takes the time to help you. It really does work......

Snow Leopard Printing Woes - what worked for me

I found many print problems posted EVERYWHERE from every printer manufacturer and model and many solutions and some worked for some people. None worked for me.
I have a HP Laserjet 2100M, which is old, but is listed as compatible with SL. I cannot part with it, as it is a true laser printer, not a monochrome, which means when I need to colour separate say a blue and red document, it prints as solid, not grayscale. It has printed 44,820 pages for me over the years, with only laser cartridge replacement as an expense. As well, I cannot find anything but monochrome for a replacement.
It worked on my old iMac G5 running Leopard, however, when I got my new iMac running Snow Leopard, I got "Printer Offline" message and it would not go online and while some solution ideas got it to print, sometimes, it was only good for one or two jobs and then would stop again, or it would say printing and nothing would print.
Here is what worked for me:
I disconnected my printer's usb and power supply, reset printer system.
Went to Macintosh HD-Library-printers-PPDs-contents-resources and deleted all of the HP Drivers.
I got my HP 2100 series driver from my old iMac and put that back in the resources folder and emptied trash.
I shut down my computer.
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Started up computer.
After fully launched, I connected my USB cable for the printer. I went to add printer and it came up right away and said new software update was available for my printer AND I SAID NO to updating. In selected my driver, and...
My printer and I have reached a compromise!
It still says offline, however, everything is printing anyway... this I can live with.
I also found this link, which I will only try if I encounter any other disruptions
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QT7 installing(what worked for me)

There have been numerous post's about having problems installing QT7. I had the same problem and got the same errors that other's are posting. There doesn't seem to be a accurate solution to this problem of wether it is the Microsoft OS or the Apple installer. So I will post what worked for me in finally getting QT7 standalone to install.
I downloaded SP2 for XP pro to get Windows Installer 3.1, I previously had version 2.0
I then removed QT from the computer using the add/remove control panel. And then went to the Folder Options control panel and selected, show hidden files and folders. Then went to Start>search all files and folders, QuickTime, and removed all that was left behind.
I then went into the registry, Start>run>type in regedit>OK
In the registry, I first went to HKEYLOCALMACHINE+SOFTWARE and deleted Apple Computer, Inc. And then hit the F3 key on the keyboard to get the next QT registry key to appear delete it and hit the F3 again for the next one to appear, and keep repeating this until they are all removed.
I then went to each registry listing-HKEYCLASSESROOT, HKEYCURRENTUSER, HKEY_USERS, HKEYCURRENTCONFIG
And would click on one to highlight and then go to the Edit menu, click find, type in QuickTime, hit the enter key on the keyboard. Delete the QT registry entry, and hit the F3 keyboard key for the next one to appear. I went thru this procedure until everything QT was removed from the computer.
Note: the registry is very risky to go into deleting keys. It would be wise to go to the microsoft website to get further info before attempting anything in it!
This worked for me. QT7 standalone then installed. I also downloaded Windows Installer Clean up Utility. Ran it and found QT 7.02 in there and removed it.
goodluck

I don't know why this is not installing on some computers and not others. It took me 2 or 3 days to get it to.
The only things I did was update to SP2 to get Windows Installer 3.1 Remove everything QT from the computer as I previously mentioned.
In Install Shield I downloaded driver 7. I had read a article about having the same number driver in Install Shield as the first number of the version of the progarm you are trying to install. In this case it is 7.0.2, so I downloaded 7. I did not bookmark the link to this. So I don't know now where it is on the web. But after doing this it still did not install.
It didn't install to after I removed QT from the computer and ran Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. And removed QT which was in there. Here is the link to download the installer cleanup utility.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301
Also this link my be of interest.
http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108393
I don't know what it was exactly that got it to install. But this is all I did. If you have any other questions or compare what I have on this computer your welcome to ask.
I realize it is fustrating and wish I could have been of more help.

IPhone-Outlook 2007 Calendar Sync (What worked for me)

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Today after 3 weeks of day after day trial my iPhone-Outlook 2007 Calenar synch problems seems to be fully fixed. Once again this is what worked for me - I am sharing it and hope that can help you as well:
Overview
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I now fully believe that the root cause of the issue starts from a corrupted appoinment entry in your local calendar file. This appointment entry in turn breaks your outlook sync file known as the .OST file. I will tell you how to fix this later. This file is what iTune uses to synch the iPHONE calendar with your Outlook 2007 (same should work for outlook 2003).
In short when the outlooksync.DLL file called by iTUNE, request to sync with outlook - it is the outlook that cannot resolve a corrupt .OST file and all goes to **** after that.
I say this as "This is up to you find this bad calendar entry, get rid of it, get rid of the .OST file, and finally tell Outlook to do a repair job on your outlook installation. I will tell you all how to do this as well.
Steps to fix this issue:
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1- Go to your outlook calendar and delete any old appointment that still is in there. I got rid of anything older that 2 weeks. To do this just go to your calendar in outlook ... swith to a List view ... sort based on date and highlight anything older than that date and delete. This took me about 30-45 miutes of work... so be paitent with this step. Also, get rid of any holiday notification BS that Outlook puts in your calendar ... you can do this later.
2- Go to outlook-tools-trust center-click on Add-In and then at the bottom of the screen click on Go and validate that your two outlook sync dlls are marked and enabled.
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C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\
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and rename your .OST file ... (there should be only one out there).
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4- Now starts your outlook and let it do its initial sync. Make sure iTune is off at this point. After the Outlooks initialization is done ... now comes the moment of truth...
5- Start iTune (I recommend that you select manual sync) and sycn with your calendar.
At this point I learned that all my calendar items have come in ....
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This is to see if you end up with dots on every day.
If you do not end up with dots on every day, then you might want to take a look at any reoccurring events in the other outlook calendar.
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This is what worked for me:
I called 1-877-419-4500. I got a guy named Don.
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Here's What Worked!! Yeah! 1402 was conquered!!

I am not an expert but this is what worked for me. I kept getting an error of 1402 when I ried to install quicktime stand alone. The reason I tried to install this was because I would get a message during the general installation that said Itunes would not open because I had quicktime 6.5 installed instead of 7.02. I tried everything mentioned including changing permissions in the registry, installing windows install cleanup, etc., etc,. What actually worked was going to start then run typing in regedit and deleting everything that said quick time. After doing that I disable Norton and dowloaded the quicktime standalone and it worked. I then dowloaded Itunes and it worked. I didn't lose any music or anything. I hope this helps, but please check with someone who knows more before you take my advice. I am finally back.

it worked until the next time I synced the iPod, and then back to the freeze up. Next thing I tried was this Microsoft help page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
which advises on several things, all of which seem helpful, but the thing still freezes up. I can sync the iPod, then the system freezes and I have to reboot. So, I now believe Apple will have to issue a patch for these bugs when using the new 5G iPods with WinXP.
c.
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My Apple TV and IPad drop after x mintues from "Home Sharing". To restart it, I need to close iTunes on my Windows 7 PC, open it , then I can listen again X minutes (15-90 minutes) to my music via "Home Sharing". Any idea why? What worked for you?

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This is what worked for me, Read!!!! Now I am activated

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This is what worked for me:
I called 1-877-419-4500. I got a guy named Don.
I asked him to make sure the 'business' thing wasn't on my account. It wasn't.
We reset the phone. (Hold home button and sleep/wake button) nothing.
He said he was going to get a hold of someone in the 'technical activation dept'. He did.
They found a 'glitch' on my account. Seems the activation was placed on hold. they took that off.
turned off my phone, plugged it into usb cable, itunes got it, viola! activated.
call that number. talk directly to a human, no wait, no menus.

TS4268 what apple write here is now work for me. If anyone know how to activate imessage on iPhone 5 ios 7.1.1 please kindly share how?

Since i upgarde my iPhone 5 to the latest ios 7.1.1, it doesn't work on iMessage. I've tried to follow the instruction posted by Apple but it still not work for me. It appear " iMessage unsuccessful activation" after i waiting for activation for a while. If anyone know how to get it successful please kindly share, HOW ?

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Express not showing up..What worked for me...

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After reading a bunch of posts on here, I finally got my unit to work. Here's what I did.
First, I did a "hard"-reset on the Express by holding down the reset button till the light started to flash amber, then releasing it. After about 30 seconds of solid amber, the express showed up in Airport utility. I copied its Airport ID number shown. Next I got the same information for the Extreme base station, which by the way, always showed up in AU.
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I apologize if this is a long winded post, but I hope that I may have been able to help some people out who appear to have been having the same problem that I had.
Good luck!!

Yes, the same thing has happened to me. My internet connection was working fine, but I couldn't see my Airport Express in the Admin Utility nor could I see my remote AirTunes speakers in iTunes. After a restart, everything came back to normal. So if anyone else is facing something similar, try that before panicking.
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Ever since I went to Tiger I have had problems with Safari and any other browser while at work on my dsl connection. I knew it was not the connection because my G4 with 9.2.2 would work. At home on cable Tiger worked fine. What I found out is that the router/server combination my ip used were Sisco and for some reason Tiger does not work well with them. I asked a programmer familiar with linux to help me and he gave me some code to type into terminal and guess what it works great!... almost! Every time I start Safari I have to enter the code and all is fine. Here is the code
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