Can't start mobile device service error 1503

I'm using win7 ..
I recently tried to sync my iphone4 with the itunes
And a message poped up say " can't start mobile device" sth like that
Then I followed some solution on the apple webiste..
But when I try to restart the service..
It said " Error 1503 "the service did not respond to the start request in a timely manner" "
What can I do to slove that
Thanks !

See Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
tt2

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