It's all good so far

I was trying to download the latest version of Itunes last night during a commercial break. All the net gurus have suggested that I make this upgrade in preparation for the upgrade to IOS-5.  I  started the down load the program and discovered that  downloads from Apple did not automatically install.  Apple recommends that the programs be installed manually. Of course Apple doesn’t expect this to happen so no small text file, or trail of bread crumbs was provided.

I start with Itunes, but it blows out – it can’t find it’s french friend Bonjour. I am not sure what the purpose of this Bonjour Service program is other than eat cheese and surrender.   I  go into services to re-enable Bonjour, but surprise, when you try to change the properties, you get a message that Bonjour was marked for death and can’t be installed.

Ok, you start with the installation of the new copy of Bonjour, but it is a jealous little thing, demanding that I take all the widgets off the desktop and close everything before it would load. Skype kept resurrecting itself during the process. I had to keep Task manager open so that I could  kill every attempt Skype made to sneak back on. Finally with Skype gone and the new high maintenance french program can compete its installation. With the frogware installed, the Itunes upgrade proceeds as planned, A half hour from start to finish for the lack of a simple text file included in the download.

Well now a I am ready to do the IOS-5 upgrade, but guess what, it is being coy and hiding from me this morning. I guess it will be a repeat of the exercise tonight with the IOS upgrade.

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