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ITunes 7.2: "Please wait while Windows configures iTunes" on every startup

I am running into the some issue. With all of the problems everyone else is running into with the 7.2 install - I am happy that this is all I have going on - but it is getting irrating. EVERY time I start iTunes I get the windows installer starting with the "please wait while Windows configures iTunes."
I have uninstalled, used a reg cleaner, reinstalled with 7.2.0.35. QT runs without issues. I am not sure where to go from here.
When I ran the install - i had the windows installer create a log. I found the following error in it:
Action start 13:15:02: AppSearch.
Info 1402. Could not open key: HKEYCLASSESROOT\pcast. System error 5. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.
Action ended 13:15:02: AppSearch. Return value 1.
I ran the installer as Administrator so permissions should have been covered.
Any help would be appreciated.
BigGuy
PS - forgive the spelling <smile>
Dell Inspiron Windows Vista Black 60G iPod

I’ve tried the indicated solution and it didn’t work. I gave full permissions for Administrators, my user (which is an Administrator) and Everyone, for every single key and sub-key. It didn’t work.
Then, I deleted the .pcast. When I opened iTunes again it came back without the permissions again.
How long it will take for Apple’s programmers to correct this garbage? I’ve read several forums where people reformatted their computers to make it work again. This is simply unbelievable! I’m using the last version (7.4.2.4). I’ve found people complaining since version 7.2.x.
Ah! I forgot. Of course, the problem is the Windows Vista.

ITunes 10.7 upgrade - 'Please Wait While Windows Configures iTunes'

Upgraded to iTunes 10.7, which I now regard as one of the poorest pc-related decisions I've ever made. The time suck on this issue is massively depressing.
Running Windows Vista. Have completely uninstalled and re-installed (clean registries, re-boots etc) all iTunes and Apple products with no resolution.
Every time I try to start iTunes I get a "Please Wait While Windows Configures iTunes" message on loop. At some point it will usually default to "Checking iTunes Library" and then both that and the installer will run in tandem. When I look at Task Manager it seems to indicate from the amount of memory usage that iTunes is in fact running in some form or at some level, but it does not actually open the program.
When I reinstalled yesterday iTunes opened right up (after the install it did not ask me to reboot the system). When I restarted the system this morning the problem was back. Just installs and installs and installs ... Doesn't actually open. Wouldn't any registry conflict/problem have been fixed with the clean reinstall?
I've tried every solution/trick/suggestion I can find with internet searches. No luck. This has been a month now. iPhone and various iPods completely inaccessible re content and that really hammers home the danger of relying on a closed system like this. Really disappointed in this situation.
Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated.

I am using iTunes 7.1.1

I keep getting a Please wait while windows configures itunes

I keep getting a Please wait while windows configures itunes...
It started this afternoon, I thought nothing of it and reinstalled itunes again and that seemed to have fixed the problem, but the problem has reoccurred.
I've done a bit of research on how to fix for example going through to the regedit and changing the pcast Permissions etc but this hasn't helped at all, if anything Its made things worse because I cant uninstall itunes now.
Please can anybody help me.
Cheers

If iTunes launches eventually then it's simply a matter of the installer not having correctly updated the shortcuts.
Delete the shortcut to iTunes on your desktop and, if you have them, in the recently used/favouite applications area of the start menu and/or quick launch menu. Use the main *All Programs > iTunes > iTunes* icon to start iTunes. Copy this icon out to your desktop and/or quick launch menu if required.
If that still doesn't work, create a new shortcut from the file at C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe and replace all existing shortcuts with the new one.
If iTunes won't start at all then you have another problem that I'm thankfully (at least for me) not familiar with...
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"please wait while windows configures iTunes"

I get this message almost every time I start iTunes. It has been run several times, but will pop up often enough to be really bothersome. I run vista. Does anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it? Thanks

Many users of iTunes™, and of other Microsoft® Windows® applications, have found their systems hiccup when certain applications are launched. This can happen when an application cannot get configuration data stored in the Microsoft® Windows® registry. In some such cases, the start-up is aborted but in others the application will rebuild the information it needs to run. When this happens, the user can receive the message “Please wait while Windows configures [name of application]” followed by a minute or so while the program’s start-up gets sorted out.
Thousands, and possibly millions, of iTunes™ users have been afflicted by this problem which first struck me around the first of December, 2010 after an automatic update of the software, specifically to iTunes™ version 10.1.0.56. My computer runs Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Business Edition and its software is up to date.
A Google™ search led me to many websites with information about the same issue. I found that a number of fixes had been suggested and were reported to have worked in some cases. For three weeks, I tried in vain many proposed solutions, usually a few times, including:
• Via the Control panel, removing iTunes™ and re-installing it.
• Trying the same thing but with Microsoft’s now unsupported Windows Install Clean Up tool, that quite often been able to exorcise from the Windows™ registry stubborn residue of previous installations gone bad.
• Resorting to so-called Windows™ “registry hacks”, in an attempt to regenerate the application preferences for iTunes™ normally re-accessed on each launch.
• Recreating Desktop “shortcuts” in various ways.
No posted solution worked in my case but I kept on trying. After dozens of hours (OCD can be a fine thing in the right circumstances), I eventually did resolve my particular problem with an as yet unposted modification of the Windows™ registry
Before proceeding, please be aware that a messed up registry can transform your computer into a proverbial boat anchor. Changes should therefore be avoided unless one is willing and able to spend several days reinstalling software from scratch. Notwithstanding this advice and subject always to the caveat in my closing paragraph, here is the sequence of steps I took that has momentarily solved my particular problem:
1. Click the Start Button, and then Run.
2. Launch the Windows™ registry editor by entering Regedit and then clicking on “OK.”
3. Navigate the registry’s tree-and-branch hierarchy as follows:
HKEYCURRENTUSER
└─ Software
└─ Apple Computer Inc.
└─ iTunes
At this point you may be unable to see two dependent “child” objects in the folder, one labelled (Default) and then SM Shortcut Installed but if you try you might receive an access blocked message. Continue with the next step anyway.
4. Right-click on the iTunes folder and select Permissions, then Advanced, and lastly the Owner tab.
5. Add as Owners of the iTunes folder the following valid user IDs: SYSTEM, Administrators and your own.
6. Go back to Permissions and assign Full for the SYSTEM and for Administrators, and Read for USERS and then check to box at the bottom left of the dialogue box to apply these permissions to the folder’s dependent objects.
There is no consistent reason why Microsoft™ Windows™ applications end up improperly registered. What worked in my case may not do so for you. Any suggestions made here are offered gratis and on the express condition that, in relying upon them, you accept sole and full responsibility for any consequences. My only assurance of a kind is to wish you good luck.
Julian Isitt
Vancouver Island
Christmas 2010

"Please wait while Windows configures iTunes" Pop-up (iTunes 7.0.0.70)

Whenever I launch iTunes, I get the following pop-up: "Please wait while Windows configures iTunes".
iTunes installs an icon on my desktop and a folder in my Start/Programs list. Now, I like to keep a tidy computer (ok..ok..) so I moved the desktop icon to my Quick Launch and I moved the iTunes folder from Start/Programs to Start/Programs/Media.
Well, if I remove the desktop icon, it's ok. But once I move the iTunes folder from Start/Programs to Start/Programs/Media, the pop-up occurs.
Why?
I have iTunes configured on my home PC and my laptop. My laptop is fine (WinXP sp2)... the problem occurs on my home pc (WinXP sp2 Media Center).
Any ideas???
-Phil

Thanks for the info. I'd rather not hide it
completely. I guess I will have to keep the folder
there until Apple releases the next maintenance
release.
You don't have to hide it completely. Move it where you want it on your programs menu, start iTunes, let it "configure" and create duplicate shortcuts in the root of the programs menu, then hide those new ones. The old shortcuts you moved will remain visible and stay where you put them.
I haven't tried Loek's suggestion yet.
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Launching VB6 Editor after installing Visual Studio 2013 results in "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Visual Studio..."

I have had various versions of Visual Studio installed beside Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise for some time with no problems, most recently Visual Studio 2012 Premium.
I recently installed Visual Studio 2013 Premium, and now every time I open VB6 I get a dialog that says "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013" that shows a progress bar. After it finishes (30 seconds or
so), it launches again and again and finally VB6 will open. This happens with each instance of VB6, regardless if I've already done it once and never run VS2013 in between.
If I cancel the dialog, I get this error message in a dialog: "Error 1712. One or more of the files required to restore your computer to its previous state could not be found. Restoration will not be possible." Several more "Please wait"...
dialogs will appear and if I continue to cancel, eventually I'll get the VB6 editor. It appear to work fine despite the error messages.
It seems to me that the VS2013 installer flagged some dll's or other files to be rolled back whenever starting VB6. It doesn't appear to be necessary, and I'd like to avoid playing the "Please wait" wack-a-cancel-button game before launching each
instance of VB6 (or waiting several minutes for no reason). So how do I fix this?
Note: I've seen something similar happen in Outlook on a different PC when upgrading from 2010 to 2013. The same sort of "Please wait"... dialog would appear each time I opened Outlook. Judging by the "similar" questions that popped up when
entering this forum post, I'd say this is a general problem with upgrading older versions or installing newer versions of major Microsoft software side-by-side.
/* Don Reynolds */

I found the answer!
I was having the exact same issue, and I was search for a solution and I happened across the following thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f4b0fd38-f4f9-41ea-bd8d-834203a175d2/building-visual-studio-2010-project-triggers-please-wait-while-windows-configures-visual-studio?forum=vssetup&prof=required
Scroll a small bit down, and there is a post by Barry Wang explaining that you need to use event viewer to find out what is missing. Anyway, I opened event viewer, then open VS 6, then hit refresh in the event viewer (under Windows Logs -> Application)
and saw a warning message from MsiInstaller. It gave me the following message:
Detection of product '{9C593464-7F2F-37B3-89F8-7E894E3B09EA}', feature 'Visual_Studio_Professional_x86_enu', component '{E3FF99AA-78B9-4A06-8A74-869E9F65E1FE}' failed. The resource 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\URTInstallPath_GAC\' does
not exist.
I opened an elevated command prompt, I navigated to the C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework folder and verified that 'URTInstallPath_GAC' didn't exist, and then I did "md URTInstallPath_GAC".
Closed and reopened VS 6, and it instantly opened - no "Please wait" message.
Now this may or may not be the same problem you are having (problem is - I have had it happen on two separate computers now with VS 6 and VS 2013 installed), but it should point you in the right direction. In fact, you should be able to use the Event Viewer
for anytime the "Please wait" message shows up for any application, and then once there find out what is really missing.

Each time I have a message ''please wait while windows configures iTunes''.

when i start my itunes each time i have a message ''please wait while windows configures iTunes''. i recently Upgrad to 9.0.2. i already uninstall and install.
pls help me.
thank you in advance .

when i start my itunes each time i have a message ''please wait while windows configures iTunes''.
The iTunes desktop shortcut is an "advertised shortcut". When you click it, the first thing it does is check the iTunes.msi and determines (against the installation database in there) whether or not there's any files and registry entries and whatnot for iTunes missing on your PC. If it finds something missing, it'll do a repair install of iTunes, which is the "configures" message you're seeing.
As to why it's always doing it in your case, and fixing it ... we'd better first work out if there's real damage to the iTunes stuff on the PC or if the shortcut/itunes.msi/registry machinery is just a bit confused.
Apart from the "configures" message you're getting every time you launch iTunes, is it working okay? Are you able to sync, play music, use the Store and so forth without any trouble? Or are you getting other problems as well?

Why must I "Please wait while Windows configures iTunes" again and again?

I have just allowed the automatic settings to update my iTunes. The last time this happened it meant that the icon left on my desktop would not simply START iTunes, but instead went through the entire installation process all over again. Someone gave me some good advice and I was able to make the correct changes - it stopped and I have enjoyed it since.
This time, every time I click the icon, I must "please wait while Windows configures iTunes".
So, how do I fix this one?

Just adding my voice to a long and growing list of unhappy iTunes users who by now have spent hundreds of thousands of unproductive hours searching for a solution. My guess is that the latest iTunes install package (as with those for earlier versions of iTunes) fails to update the registry properly. It's possible that Apple is not responding becasue it hopes many of us will give up on Windows nd buy an Apple Mac (Jobs is sounding more and more like Gates did 20 years ago). Let's see a little more grace from Apple and a solution before the cows come home.

"please wait while Windows configures..." comes up when unrelated exe runs

We have recently installed BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 SP2 on a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 server.
Since we have done this, whenever we run an exe that is completely unrelated to BOXI, we are presented with a dialog:
top blue line of dialog: BusinessObjectds Enterpsie XI 3.1 SP2
within dialog itself it says: Please wait while windows configures BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 SP2
and there is a cancel button.
I have tried running a repair, then a reboot, but still have the same issue.
Help!

resolved this by logging on as user that has acces to install directory and just went ahead and did the install.

Please wait while Windows configures NI DSC Common Tools

So I let NI Update install a bunch of things over the weekend (only about 18GB of download ) among which the LabVIEW DSC 2013 SP1 update. Now every time I startup any of my installed 32 Bit versions of LabVIEW, including the version 2013SP1, I get this lovely Windows installer dialog "Please wait while Windows configures NI DSC Common Tools 2013 SP1". This dialog pops up several times during every start of LabVIEW, I believe about four times before showing the startup splash screen and then another 3 or 4 times until LabVIEW is fully up and running.
Letting those dialogs run or canceling them seems to make no difference at all. Does anybody know what I need to do to fix this annoying problem, short of deinstalling the entire DSC packge?
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

Thanks Mike.
I've seen it before after installing the LabVIEW 7.0 Runtime Engine. I have to say that this computer is pretty loaded with all kinds of NI software and other development software. It seems the installer for the LabVIEW 7.0 Runtime and the LabVEW 2013 SP1 DSC Common Tools both stumble over something on this machine that causes some component to not register properly and when then any LabVIEW version is started it attempts to register that component (apparently several times) whenever another component is loaded during LabVIEW initilialization.
I didn't see any errors during the installation of any of those components (but the LabWindows/CVI update that was also downloaded during the NI Update cycle consistently fails during several of its components during install).
Most likely it is some .Net assembly that causes all this trouble, and I loath the lack of any more detailed message that would allow to better pinpoint the actual subcomponent that causes this.
For the time being I simply uninstalled the NI LabVIEW 2013 SP1 DSC Common Tools (and the LabVIEW 7.0 RTE) completely from the machine. Interestingly enough it was not enough to uninstall the entire LabVIEW 2013 SP1 DSC Toolkit but I had to explicitedly go into the downloaded installer and select the MSI file for the DSC Common Tools and select the uninstall option in there to really get rid of these annoying messages during every startup of any 32 bit LabVIEw version on this machine.
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

Please wait while windows configures microsoft visual studio professional 2013

After installing visual community 2013 and rebooting visual studio works fine but all other microsoft office programs display "please wait while windows configures microsoft visual studio professional 2013" and continues the installation for
about 1 minute before the program starts. I tried deleting mso.dll and reinstalling but it is still the same. Any help would be appreciated?

Hi iwallhead,
Then can your VS work fine? Anyway, please upload the installation log.
Use a tool named collect.exe to collect the log file. Download
collect.exeand
run it directly. The utility creates a compressed cabinet of all the VS and .NET logs to
%TEMP%\vslogs.cab. Please upload the
vslogs.cab file on onedrive.
I will help check if any install error exists.
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"Please wait while Windows configures Adobe Acrobat 9" message

I installed Acrobat 9 Standard on my Windows XP PC (3.02GHz HT CPU with 1GB RAM and 4.25GB free HD space) and it runs OK if I'm logged on as an Administrator. However, if I log on as a non-privileged user, I get the pop-up message "Please wait while Windows configures Adobe Acrobat 9" for EVERY action I take. That is, if I start an application such as Firefox, I get the message. If I right-click on a file in Explorer to copy it, I get the same message, etc., etc.
This was a clean installation - all previous Adobe products cleaned off the PC. This is a ridiculous situation. Anybody know what the problem is and how to get rid of it?
Thanks,
Mike

Hi Mike, try deselecting the Acrobat Display PDF in Browser option
Choose Edit > Preferences > Internet, deselect Display PDF in Browser, and click OK.
Or disable the Acrobat browser check preference by choosing Edit > Preferences > Internet and deselect Check Browser Settings When Starting Acrobat
The Acrobat Display PDF in Browser option displays any PDF document opened from the web inside the browser window. If this option isn't selected, PDF documents open in a separate Acrobat window. A corrupt registry setting causes the error to occur each time you start Acrobat.
When you start Acrobat, it checks your default web browser preferences for compatibility with Acrobat and this preference setting may become corrupt. A corrupt preference file causes the error to occur each time you start Acrobat. Turning off, then back on, "View PDF in browser" forces Acrobat to remove and re-create the applicable registry setting. When "View PDF in browser" is re-enabled, the corrupt registry key is written correctly.
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Acrobat 9 Pro "Please wait while Windows configures Acrobat..."

<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My CS4 install went fine on my Vista 32 system and <br />everything's working as it should. However, I'm consistently finding this error <br />message "please wait while windows configures Adobe Acrobat 9" popping up. It is <br />already installed. I didn't open it first (because I DID read the readme file <br />which said not to!). This popup happens when I right-click on something on <br />the desktop or in the start menu. I've tried just cancelling it and I've tried <br />letting to proceed and neither keeps it from happening again. Either way, after <br />it goes away I then get the intended action (ie: if right click the menu <br />drops).</FONT></DIV><br /><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><br /><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Based on this KB link which describes the exact <br />same issue only in Acrobat 6: <A <br />href="">http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=330293&sliceId=1< /A> <br /></FONT></DIV><br /><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was hopeful there'd be a similar solution for the <br />new version. I hate to go through the gyrations of uninstalling and reinstalling <br />if it isn't going to fix it. Everything else is working. This is more of a <br />nusance than anything else. It's not like it keeps me from working. Therefore <br />it's hard to justify hours on the phone with tech support when they're clueless <br />and walking me through a script to nowhere! I've treid twice already but lost <br />patience both times. I posted on that same ticket online a week ago with NO <br />response yet. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it normal for Adobe's online <br />support to not respond after a week? Seems pretty poor to me. </FONT></DIV><br /><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><br /><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone else seen this? </FONT></DIV><br /><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any ideas about it? <BR>Thanks, <br /><BR>Sheila</FONT></DIV><br /><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>

Not sure why that posted as HTML...Here it is easier to read...sorry about
that!
My CS4 install went fine on my Vista 32 system and everything's working as
it should. However, I'm consistently finding this error message "please wait
while windows configures Adobe Acrobat 9" popping up. It is already
installed. I didn't open it first (because I DID read the readme file which
said not to!). This popup happens when I right-click on something on
the desktop or in the start menu. I've tried just cancelling it and I've
tried letting to proceed and neither keeps it from happening again. Either
way, after it goes away I then get the intended action (ie: if right click
the menu drops).
Based on this KB link which describes the exact same issue only in Acrobat
6:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=330293&sliceId=1
I was hopeful there'd be a similar solution for the new version. I hate to
go through the gyrations of uninstalling and reinstalling if it isn't going
to fix it. Everything else is working. This is more of a nusance than
anything else. It's not like it keeps me from working. Therefore it's hard
to justify hours on the phone with tech support when they're clueless and
walking me through a script to nowhere! I've treid twice already but lost
patience both times. I posted on that same ticket online a week ago with NO
response yet. Is it normal for Adobe's online support to not respond after a
week? Seems pretty poor to me.
Anyone else seen this?
Any ideas about it?
Thanks,
Sheila

Please wait while windows configures hp product assistant

To HP and Company
9 Jan 2014
I kept getting the following message in red on my Windows 7 Dell Computer so I did everything the help sites told me to do and nothing helped. I got rid of all HP files and the problem went away. I ordered the CD software for my HP C7180 printer and when it came, I loaded it to the PC and guess what, the problem came back.
Please wait while windows configures hp product assistant
I’m at wits end and need a final solution to this problem.
Will you please provide me with the solution for once and for all?

Problem Solved Problem Solved Problem Solved windows configures hp product assistant
Removed all HP Software
Purchased a Brother Printer
Loaded Brother Software and all is well
Put the HP Printer and Software in the trash

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