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Running iTunes over the Network

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Mr. Pedantic

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I want to run iTunes on my laptop, using the install on my desktop. At the moment, I can't. Whenever I try to run the exe, I get this message:

Apple Application Support was not found.

Apple Application Support is required to run iTunes. Please uninstall iTunes, then install iTunes again.

Error 2 (Windows error 2)

So...what's going on? I can run iTunes perfectly fine on my desktop, but not through my laptop. I can also run other programs perfectly fine on my laptop over the network, just not iTunes. I just reinstalled iTunes, but that hasn't helped.
 
It sounds like iTunes has a Windows Service called Apple Application Support that installs with the iTunes application and has to be running on the system you want to run iTunes on in order for the iTunes application to work.
 
Damn. Any way to run the service from my desktop as well, or install the service separately from iTunes? Or do I need to install iTunes itself on my laptop? That kind of defeats the purpose of trying to do that though.
 
Why don't you want to install iTunes on your laptop?
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I just don't want it on there, because it means that I either have to import all my music over or redefine my playlists because all my music is suddenly on a network, instead of system drive. I would much rather just use it off the system and hopefully have the playlists already predefined and work.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
I just don't want it on there, because it means that I either have to import all my music over or redefine my playlists because all my music is suddenly on a network, instead of system drive. I would much rather just use it off the system and hopefully have the playlists already predefined and work.
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You can install iTunes on both computers and then use the sharing feature built into iTunes. Not as clean as what you want, but it will achieve the result you want.
 
Possibly installing iTunes on the laptop would allow you to then run the .exe on the desktop because the service would then be running on the laptop.
 
Which is why I will never get a apple product. I rather have a thick mp3 player then nano,, I just simply hate Macintosh with passion, very weak OS. 7 blew it away.
 
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