ITunes 10 & iPodService Installation on Windows XP Fix

THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH INSTALLING iTUNES 10 WITH iPODSERVICE ON SOME WINDOWS XP INSTALLATIONS. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE iTUNES 10 ALREAYD INSTALLED HERE'S A SOLUTION (Originally posted in this thread: http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2571010&tstart=0)
NOTE: This is not for the faint at heart, i.e. get your 13 year old son or grandson to help you if needed!
1) Download 7zip (do a search on google for it).
1.a) Install it after downloaded
2) Download iTunes 9.2 setup file from here: http://www.downloadatoz.com/pda-mobile_directory/itunes/
2.a) Make sure to save "iTunesSetup.exe" to a folder somewhere that you can find it and extract files contained in it.
2.b) DO NOT INSTALL iTUNES 9.2 BECAUSE iTUNES 10 IS ALREADY INSTALLED
3) Open the "iTunesSetup.exe" file with 7zip and extract the contents.
4) Open the "iTunes.msi" file with 7zip and extract the "iTunes.cab" file ONLY.
5) Open the "iTunes.cab" file with 7zip and look for the "iPodService.exe" file and extract it ONLY.
6) Copy the "iPodService.exe" file to C:\Program Files\iPod\bin
7) DING! All done. You can now open your version of iTunes 10 and everything should work!
7.a) If it still fails, you may need to copy "ipodservice.dll" from "iTunes.cab" to "C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.Resources" as well.
Message was edited by: ballparkfm

Here's a cleaner fix that seems to hit the problem on the head:
http://bit.ly/itunes10prob

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