HT203311 Bonjour service disabled.

I want to use home sharing again but one computer says Bonjour service has been disabled so I can't share. How do I re-enable Bonjour?

Could be your firewall but bonjour has been acting funny with all the iTunes updates. Check your firewall settings and make sure it's I. The list of allowed programs. if that's not it try going into programs and features from the control panel, find and select bonjour then click the repair button which basically reinstalls the bonjour software.

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Bonjour service disabled after latest update

I just updated my iTunes to the latest version and a message came up stating: Warning! The Bonjour Service has been disabled. Bonjour is required for sharing music with others, playing music through AirPlay speakers, connecting to Apple TV...." then it says to re-enable the service but I cannot find where to do that. I've gone into the control panel and cannot find it anywhere....
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it...thanks!

Interestingly enough this is only happening on my new Sony Vaio laptop VPCEB45FX with Win 7! I have the same setup on my Dell Inspiron and my iPhone sync's properly. On the Sony it simply can't find it. I have completely uninstalled all Apple software (Quicktime, AutoUpdate, iTunes, Bonjour, etc) 5 times now and done fresh re-installs. I disabled my AVG Free Edition anti-virus 2012, same result. I have run all diagnostics from Apple and it says no device is connected, yet Win 7 acknowledges it immediately when plugged in.
Also on iTunes under Preferences, Devices, it shows "Bonjour is disabled" but under Windows services it shows it is running and set to the "automatic" mode as recommended in the Apple dicussions. I tried turning off Windows firewall, but still have the same result. I can unplug the iPhone and plug it into my Dell and it immediately syncs with identical software!
I am stumped! Thanks for all you suggestions!

Bonjour Service disabled

I have successfully installed iTunes (newest version) and Bonjour Service. When I go to Preferences/Sharing it says
"Bonjour service has been disabled. Bonjour is required to share muisc with other users. Please re-enable the service to use this feature."
When I check services it shows Bonjour as running. What next?????

As a Trend Micro user, I confirm that I had the same problem and it was solved the way indicated by MarcDigsApples (thanks !). But ...
1/ As explained in the Bonjour documentation, I previously opened UDP 5353 in/out for C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe in the firewall rules : no effect. I opened all ports for that program : no effect (it is in this last state yet).
2/ It was MANDATORY to stop firewall AND antivirus AND to RESTART the PC (just stopping them, or quitting Trend Micro, and then trying to restart Bonjour service was not enough - even just quitting windows session was not enough).
3/ At one occasion, I directly launched C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe : it opened an empty DOS window for a few seconds, and maybe it has done something usefull - because further retries just quickly opened end close this DOS window). I don't remember if Bonjour Service was stopped or not at the time I tried this.
I hope this will be helpfull to Robert with his McAfee suite.

Itunes 12.1.1.4 latest download has disabled Bonjour Services even thou windows task manager shows running and apple TV's no longer show as shared even though sharing switched on any solutions??

Windows latest download of iTunes has disabled Bonjour Services a message to restart says go to settings?? there is no settings in iTunes only preferences
Apple TV's says start sharing on compute? ITunes Home Sharing started Windows Task Manager says Bonjour Services running yet unable to share from computer to any Apple TV in the home is this another Apple programming bug

Windows latest download of iTunes has disabled Bonjour Services a message to restart says go to settings?? there is no settings in iTunes only preferences
Apple TV's says start sharing on compute? ITunes Home Sharing started Windows Task Manager says Bonjour Services running yet unable to share from computer to any Apple TV in the home is this another Apple programming bug

My bonjour service is disabled, it says to uninstall and reinstall my itunes, won't I loose all my music?

Hi, I want to share music from my ipod touch to my ipod classic but it says my bonjour service is disabled. When I go to help it says to uninstall and reinstall my itunes. Won't I loose all my information and music?

No. Removing and re-installing iTunes has NO affect on the content that is stored in your iTunes library. Use the steps in this article to help you remove and re-install iTunes.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1925
B-rock

Bonjour Service Keeps Getting Disabled

Ever morning when I return to my office computer and attempt to launch iTunes, I get an error message saying that the Bonjour service has been disabled. I have to manually re-enable it in services.msc. iTunes runs fine all day, but when I come back the next morning, the Bonjour service has been disabled again.
This behavior started a couple of weeks ago while I was running iTunes 11, and has persisted since I upgraded to iTunes 12.
Running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

That's what happened. Asked our department's IT guy, and he said the higher ups recently decided to disable the Bonjour service from privacy and copyright reasons. Something about people being able to see other people's music libraries.
Guess I'll just have to do the manual restart every morning, or figure out a way to script it.
Thanks!

How to disable Bonjour service advertising in Yosemite

Hi there,
I'm trying to disable the Bonjour service advertising in Yosemite / Mac OS X 10.10.
Unfortunately the instructions in OS X: How to disable Bonjour service advertising without disabling DNS no longer apply, since Yosemite no longer has /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
I did some digging around and there's someone who made a script to disable it in various Mac OS versions, including supposedly Yosemite: https://github.com/MacMiniVault/Mac-Scripts/blob/master/disablebonjour/disablebo njour-README.md
I had a look at the script to find out what it does and manually inserted "--no-multicast" as string under Program Arguments in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
Doing so, will mess up the wi-fi. Networks only show when wi-fi is off, and turning it on makes it seem like it's off and I'm never able to connect until I undo the changes described above.
Wondering if:
1) The result from changes above is expected or is it a bug?
2) If Apple can update OS X: How to disable Bonjour service advertising without disabling DNS to include instructions for Yosemite.
3) Did anyone here manage to disable Bonjour service advertising in Yosemite without introducing any new issues?
Thanks!

So far, it doesn't appear to work correctly. I've posted more details in a thread here:
Disable Bonjour in 10.10 without breaking DNS or WiFi

The bonjour service has been disabled. Re-enable the bonjour service

The bonjour service has been disabled. Bonjour is required to share music with others. Please re-enable the service to use this feature. How do I fix this on my iTunes?

Hello, dkm.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here are the steps I would recommend going through when receiving this error.
iTunes 11.1.4 for Windows: Unable to install or open
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5376
Cheers,
Jason H.

The Bonjour service has been disabled

Hi,
*What I have:*
iTunes 8.1.0.52
Vista 64-bit
*My Problem:*
When i got to Edit > Preferences > Apple TV, it shows this message:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2eykodk.png
*I've read and tried everything mentioned in these two threads:*
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1703634&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1702293
*I've also:*
Uninstalled Bonjour, downloaded newest version and installed it.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/windows/bonjourforwindows.html
Uninstalled Bonjour, updated my iTunes to 8.1.0.52
*Bonjour is in my services and task manager, and is running.*
http://i40.tinypic.com/e187i9.png
http://i42.tinypic.com/34y7e5f.png
Can anybody tell me a solution to getting iTunes to detect that Bonjour is running?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: PigFat

I had the same problem as yourself on my Vista x64 system. I've just uninstalled my Bonjour service and then reinstalled the latest 64bit Bonjour (currently v1.0.6 as at this posting). This seems to have fixed things. FYI - I'm running iTunes 8.2.
You can download the 64bit version of Bonjour for XP & Vista from here...
http://download.info.apple.com/MacOSX/061-5788.20081215.5t9Uk/Bonjour64Setup.exe
Cheers!

How to get rid of the bonjour service?

As I'm using the iTunes only on a single PC I want to get rid of the bonjour service. Anyone can tell me how to get it permanently removed on an W2k system and is it for sure that the CDDB requests have nothing to do with it so they are still working fine?

Just disable it.
Desktop > My Computer > right-click > Manage
expand Service and Application > highlight Services
Find the Bonjour service in the list on the right.
Double-click, and change the Startup type from Automatic to either Manual or Disabled
Then press Apply button
You can also press the stop button if Bonjour is currently running
[EDIT: Yes, CDDB will still work.]

Trying to install the latest iTunes on my Gateway w/ Windows XP. I keep getting the message "Service 'Bonjour Service' (Bonjour Service) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services."

Hi, I'm trying to re-install the latest iTunes on my Gateway w/ Windows XP. I had to update it a while back to put songs on my brother's iPod, but my computer froze halfway through and nothing has worked right since.
I keep getting the message "Service 'Bonjour Service' (Bonjour Service) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services."
I looked through older discussions that told me to go to right click My Computer - Manage - Services and Applications - Services - Find Bonjour and restart it.
Well, the only option that I can click on is Start. When I do, it says "Windows could not restart the Bonjour Service service on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified."
Where do I go from here? Help would be greatly appreciated, I've been trying to fix this for over a year now with no dice. Also, I cannot do a factory reset (last effort) because it says the administor's account is disabled and I do not have the disc.

Sorry if double posting is a no-no here, but I forgot to add that I've already tried disabling Spyware Doctor.

Cannot install itunes 9.2 - bonjour service failed to start

Like in many of the other topics, i am unable to install itunes 9.2 on my computer.
I have checked (and edited if needed) exceptions in firewall etc. I have disabled said security as well. I have even uninstalled all AV.
I have tried the registry changes to grant the bonjour service full priviledges.
I have tried giving the bonjour service administrator rights in the service itself.
I have tried retrying at the error dialog extensively (although i did not put much hope into this one).
I have tried installing airport for windows, which temporarily seemed to get bonjour working, but again it died during itunes 9.2 installation with the same error.
Edit:
I have also (almost obvious) tried to uninstall and reinstall itunes/quicktime/bonjour many times, both in my standard startup setup as well as in msconfig'ed startups enabling only specifics to said programs.
Edit end
The exact error from the event viewer=>Windows Logs=>System is as follows:
The Bonjour Service service terminated with a service-specific error 6 (0x6).
Now, i would very much like this to be fixed as soon as possible (as i'm sure the rest of the users would as well), so i can actually use my iphone for music i already own, manage it and so on and so forth.
I have already spent more than 8 hours on this specific problem since yesterday, which is quite frankly ridiculous. Especially in the context of apple products, which in the past prided themself on being extremely stable and userfriendly unlike most other platforms. I do realize that this does not apply in the same sense regarding the crossover between platforms, but as far as i can tell this problem is an old injury attested by many people on many versions of itunes (and other software) in relation to bonjour.
Edit:
I am running 64bit (and ofcourse using the 64bit installers)
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Update:
Well, i called my telecom company and spoke with the same guy i spoke with earlier. He found a technician, but unfortunately he had no ideas for a solution. Instead i was told to reformat.
Now, as i have quite a lot of stuff on my computer which i should back up but haven't yet, this is a very unappealing option to me. Also, from reading these forums there have been several examples of the installer failing in one way or the other even on fresh systems. And lastly, just because a piece of software works on one computer but not on another it doesn't mean i should reformat.
Now, if i had been told the error 6 (0x6) meant something i couldn't rectify without doing a complete reinstall, then i would probably have been ok with it. So that's what i told the supporter. He however had been told by his boss to tell me off with that.
So instead i asked to speak with his boss. We then spoke a little backwards and forwards about support responsibility, when it is ok to ask for a reformat and so on and so forth. I tried to tell him that it was clear to me that it wasn't really their responsibility (as it's a software problem unrelated to the iphone itself), but that it couldn't be my responsibility either to make that clear for apple.
So after a while i was put on hold for a good 10-20 minutes. After which he told me that he understood my situation and that he would talk to their chief of the supporting division (or something) as that guy is in charge of the contact with apple.
So all in all i didn't get any further, but i did get them to acknowledge the problem at hand and take it further towards a solution.
I'm guessing that the next step will be communication with apple regarding bonjour and either direct apple support, or feedback from apple about what the bonjour error actually means for a start.
Regardless, if i am not contacted mid next week, i will be calling and emailing them once more.

I'm installing the newest itunes 64 bit on my win 7 64 bit professional os. using the itunes installer it loads itunes part way and then i get an error message saying that bonjour service failed to start. i cant get itunes any further. i have to back out

I'm installing the newest version of Itunes over the last version on my laptop. win 7 pro os. it starts the install then a error msg comes up stating that Bonjour service failed to start. verify that i have sufficient priveleges to start system services. I can't retry, ignore only cancel which un-installs all that it has installed and reverts me to the last version which i had. any idea?

it starts the install then a error msg comes up stating that Bonjour service failed to start. verify that i have sufficient priveleges to start system services.
Sometimes we can get past that one by disabling the Bonjour Service prior to the install.
In your Start menu, right-click Computer and select "Manage".
Expand "Services & Applications".
Open "Services". (Perhaps maximise the screen to better see what's going on.)
Right-click the Bonjour Service and select "Properties".
In the General tab, set the Startup type to "Disabled":
... and click OK.
Restart the PC and try another iTunes install. Does it go through properly this time?

Bonjour service running but itunes doesn't recognize it

Hi,
I have a Windows 7 computer. I had previously disabled the bonjour service due to conflicts. But now I need it to share with an apple tv. I reinstalled bonjour and my system shows it as running. However, itunes (which i also deinstalled and reinstalled - latest version). However when i go to the sharing tab on itunes it says that bonjour has been disabled.
Any ideas?
thanks

Hello MooseRange,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
First, follow the steps in the following article to ensure Bonjour is installed on your PC:
Bonjour for Windows: How to tell if it successfully installed
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2703
If it is not installed, then reinstall iTunes, which will also install Bonjour on your computer:
Download iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
If Bonjour is installed, then it may be blocked by your anti-virus and/or firewall:
iTunes for Windows: Bonjour alert due to firewall, security, or proxy software
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3448
Resolve issues between iTunes and security software
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3125
Take care,
Alex H.

Service "Bonjour Service' failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.

Greetings,
Having a little problem installing Itunes 12. Upon trying to install the program, i'm confronted with this error: "Service "Bonjour Service' failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services". Nothing I've done seems to be able to get the program to be installed. It asks if i want to retry or cancel. Clicking Retry only prompts me again with the same error message. After i hit cancel the entire installation rolls back.
I'm currently logged in as administrator ( I don't have any other accounts on this computer), I've tried uninstalling all the components relating to apple along with its folders and restarting+RT clicking>Run as Administrator. It still refuses to install. Very frustrating. Any ideas?

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