Disable bonjour

does anyone know how to disable bonjour as i have just installed the latest version of itunes and now i am unable to stream music, i understand this may be down to a conflict between itunes, any help

at the moment, we've just got workarounds.
reinstall BonJour and do your printer discovery.
once you've got that organised, there's a couple of options.
1. if you use Bonjour way more than Airtunes
when you want to listen to airtunes, use the instructions in my post earlier in the thread to temporarily close the BonJour Service.
2. if you use Airtunes way more than BonJour
try using MSCONFIG to disable loading of the BonJour Service on Startup. (this procedure involves a restart of the PC.)
go "Start > Run", type MSCONFIG and hit enter.
click on the "Services" tab.
find the BonJour Service and uncheck it. hit OK.
restart the PC when asked to do so.
BonJour Service will no longer load on startup. to activate the service on those occasions when you need it, head back into the Services screen in your Computer Management and restart the BonJour Service.

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Recently had the common issue of my itunes not running once I updated to itunes 10. I disabled Bonjour as reccommended and now I can launch itunes. But I'm wondering if that will have any affect on how itunes runs and particuarly how iphones/ipods sync. Will I still be able to sync iproducts normally?
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The only sign that its had any activity was last night when I tried to shut down my computer I got a "Not responding" window about itunes store...
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I'm trying to disable the Bonjour service advertising in Yosemite / Mac OS X 10.10.
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Sorry, the notifications appear in the top right.
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Hi,
I set up a test account to try this and had problems with iChat Logging in full stop.
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The only sign that its had any activity was last night when I tried to shut down my computer I got a "Not responding" window about itunes store...
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Wow I really didn't expect this post to be heard let alone be responded to in such detail! Thanks so much for listening to my frustrations..
Most of all I feel iTunes Match falls just short of what in needs to be because its missing a few minor features. With a minor update to how it works these issues could be completely resolved.
The cloud, in my opion, could act as more of a background operation.   If it was just a way to access music not already synced manually, it would allow for users to still control what music gets synced and the rest goes to the cloud.. in the background. Instead of removing the features that allow users to check with playlist, songs, albums and artists they want to sync, instead keep this option. The cloud would hold the complete library.
This minor difference would make it something that would not remove any existing functionality while still enjoying all the benefits of the cloud.
Until I get to have control of the sync manually and use the cloud I will have to cancel my itunes match because its causing more problems than it solves.
FYI all of my apple cloud services are currently off because of similar issues. There needs to be a ballance between simplicity and user control.
Steve's war with Google doesn't allow me to merge my contacts with theirs becasue you are specifically limiting it to happen. Google has to exploit loopholes to make everything sync by going around Apple's roadblocks.   Its a real bummer.

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To use the companies VPN I have to disable Bonjour. When I disable Bonjour, iTunes launches, then stops working.
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In order to get it out of this cycle, I put it in disc mode, where it was recognized by the computer. At this point, iTunes crashed immediately.
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It might be worth checking her for any disk damage. Put her into disk mode and attach her to the PC. (Don't open iTunes.) Now try running a disk check over the iPod as per the instructions in the following document. (Select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.)
[Check your hard disk for errors|http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Check-your-hard-disk-fo r-errors]
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we have some WAP371 WLAN installations at customer and ourselves. Always in Single Point Setup.
The smallest installation has 2 points, the largest has 6 Points.
All installations have the latest Firmware Version (1.1.2.3).
We have tried several times to set up Bonjour. Whenever we have enabled Bonjour there are masses of error Messages (at each access point - SinglePointSetup). In Addition almost all clients have Problems - sign permanently on the SSID on and off.
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My name Eric Moyers. I am an Engineer in the Small Business Support Center.
I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing this issue.
This is actually related to a problem that originates within something that Apple changed in their Bonjour Sleep Proxy. Customer can read more about the Bonjour Sleep Proxy here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Proxy_Service
For those that are interested there is a page for helping troubleshoot the issue located here: http://stuartcheshire.org/SleepProxy/index.html
Here is another article: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27042506-any-one-know-what-this-error-is
Normally the error message that I see is " mDNSResponder: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4"
I personally have only recently started seeing the "ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 65002".
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What I usually tell customers is that if they experience this issue they should disable bonjour on the WAP. You can also follow-up with Apple on this issue.
Eric Moyers
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