I am floored by the amount of items that iTunes installs on my PC. I just want to be able to listen to my music on my PC, but iTunes wants to creep and crawl into every crevice of my operating system.

qttask - A part of QuickTime that wants to run in my taskbar every time I start the computer. The Q sits down there and annoys me until I remove it from my startup items. It returns with every iTunes update though.

ituneshelper - Well gee, I guess based on the name of this service, it helps iTunes. It supposedly makes iTunes perform better.

Bonjour Service - Finds things on your network. Kind of creeps me out because my firewall reports that it constantly wants to use my Internet connection.

iPod Service - Yet another service that could probably be built into iTunes without constantly taking up resources. I don’t even have an iPod attached to several of my PC’s, so why not give me the option to run this one or not run it?

Apple Mobile Device - Like the iPod Service, unless you have an iPhone, you don’t need it. Yet it runs anyway.

5 services from 1 application. That’s insane! I know Apple specializes in Mac stuff so naturally they aren’t that great when it comes to PC software, but my I don’t think we need so many services loading and taking up memory.

I was looking for tips on my new iPod Nano recently. I scoured the Internet for a tip on how to enable my iPod as a hard drive. I found that most of the tutorials told me to go to Edit > Preferences in iTunes, then click on the iPod tab. Well, there was no iPod tab. It was missing, gone, kaput!

I played around with my iPod and iTunes thinking that iTunes just wasn’t detecting that I had an iPod connected to my PC. Then I discovered the setting in a much simpler location. Now in newer version of iTunes, all of the options you used to find under the iPod tab are available by simply clicking once on the iPod on the left pane and switching from Contents to Settings at the top of the window. From that window, I could then select the “Enable disk use” setting I was looking for.