Comments on: Disable AppleMobileDeviceService.Exe, iTunesHelper.exe and iPodService.exe

By: StuDiego

StuDiego — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:33:13 +0000

Nice work. It is January 2012, and this still works after installing iTunes on my Windows 7 laptop. AppleMobileDevices.exe was hogging 50% of CPU and killing battery life. Very clear instructions and for those reading now, they work!. I am also able to launch iTunes and listen to music still.
thank you.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:36:11 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:11:22 +0000

My (XP) Apple Mobile Device service kept restarting (quickly) after killing it repeatedly.

If this happens to you, check the Recovery Tab.

My settings for First, Second, and Subsequent failures were all set to “Restart the Service”

IMHO, each of the three selections should be set to. “Take No Action”
Then, Press “Apply” (or “OK”)
If you pressed “Apply”, then press “OK”

By: Alexander Bland

Alexander Bland — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:14:41 +0000

Excellent!!!!!

Helped me eliminate a CPU hog!!!!

By: Nazz

Nazz — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:45:34 +0000

Now they will lose out on profits because of this ridiculous act, btw the best program from your computer’s care in every aspect is AVG PC Tune Up 2011 thats the program i used to find apple’s processor sucking applications which can be disabled from there as well. It even gives recommendations of what properties you should disable based on computer usage etc. Very good tool indeed

By: Brejn

Brejn — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:11:06 +0000

Thank you. Apple mobile service has used 25% of Phenom X4 3.9GHz.

By: Shaun H

Shaun H — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:02:11 +0000

Thanks very much. After a while having to manually end these processes every since day is not efficient. The noise my computer made and the lag has progressively irritating the ^&*( out of me, and sometimes, one of those 3 .exe’s would just re-pop up in task manager seconds after “end process”!

By: Alvin B.

Alvin B. — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:28:43 +0000

If you have 64 bit windows, *some* but not *all* of these files are located in Program Files x86 rather than Program Files. This includes AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe.

And though I’m late to the game, there are 2 big reasons why people without Apple devices use iTunes:
Smart Playlists (WMP and even fooBar2000 still don’t have these right)
Podcasts (Nobody else has it right on Windows… though I use Doggcatcher on Android now)

By: Hooper

Hooper — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:17:41 +0000

Heads up: If you extract the contents of the iTunes installation program, you can delete the parts of the program that you don’t need and never install them in the first place. (the installation package consists of several discrete executable files. So, all you have to do is remove the ones pertaining to Bonjour and mobile devices etc…)

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:53 +0000

Thank you! Very clear instruction! Now my pc is a bit faster. ( I even bookmarked this.)

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:15:31 +0000

I’m not entirely sure. Maybe Apple has changed the location. It appears as if your operating system is hiding file extensions. When you right-click the file and select Properties, do you see the extension?

By: Lewis Koppel

Lewis Koppel — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:44:31 +0000

In the second part of the third step (disabling iPodSerevice.exe), when I went to find that file in Program Files/iPod/bin, there was no file of that name. There was a File Folder named IPodservice.resources and an application named IPodservice. I looked at what was in the former, and none of the files were named iPodService.exe. I’m not a techie–what now?

By: Nobrun

Nobrun — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:21:26 +0000

Thanx mate. I’ve been looking for these instructions for a while.

By: Bill Lee

Bill Lee — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:30:52 +0000

An extremely helpful page!!!!! Danke schön!

By: Elias

Elias — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:24:16 +0000

Hi,
I do want to disable these background apps to free up processor power when I don’t need them, but I also need to be able to connect my iPod to this computer sometimes. When I do, will I need to reverse the disabling process you describe?
Thank you.
EG

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:49:54 +0000

iTunes Outlook Addin and Outlook Change Notifiers, both installed with iTunes, are known to crash MS Outlook.

Not sure why Apple continues to include more crapware with iTunes. You’d think that QuickTime was enough.

By: ToM e BoI

ToM e BoI — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:59:33 +0000

Thanks for the info! HaHa, I’ve tried unistalling these from my laptop, but then iTune’s wouldn’t work and had to reinstall it. Now I just have them disabled instead thanks to your help. :)

I don’t use Apple products (iPhone, iPad, etc…), tho I do love using iTunes to d/l music & tv shows and I hated having to have those unnecessary processes running just to do so. Once again, thanks!

By: If you don’t have iProducts « Please Make Sense

If you don’t have iProducts « Please Make Sense — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:18:36 +0000

[...] do nothing whatsoever, it is also extremely difficult to remove and with each update to iTunes all previous methods of removal tend to become outmoded when iTunes decides to reenable the .exe whenever it feels like [...]

By: Mozz

Mozz — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:27:50 +0000

Apple plz su*k my monkey bal*s.

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:01:05 +0000

I’ve tried to follow your intructions above but non of the components you mentioned can be seen. Yet it still appears as a helper in startup ?