Bonjour causing problems

[innocent_lex]

Since it's taken me a while to get to the bottom of this problem and fix it, I figured I'd post for anyone else out there with the same problem. I'm running Win7 64bit and in the last few weeks have had repeated problems with the internet dropping out on me. It's pretty regular, really annoying, and not the router or anything hardware related. I went through a load of forums, sites, updated drivers, tested this, switched off that, etc.

Anyhoo, it's the Apply bonjour service that's the culprit. It gets installed with iTunes in stealth mode (i.e. it doesn't tell you it's happening) but unless you run speakers over the network or connect your iphone or something else fancy over the wifi, you don't need it. So I've uninstalled it. Blissfully, my internet connection is now fine, the browser and email are running faster, etc. Took way too long to track down the problem and I'm really unimpressed. It's apparently causing problems in Win7 and Vista, so if you find yourself getting this issue, try bonjour first.

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Comments

[khek.livejournal.com]

Interesting...I wonder if that has anything to do with my system slowing down so much.

I hate those automatic downloads. Yahoo toolbar is the worst, but at least they give you the option of saying no.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

It's odd - I expected my browser and email to speed up, but some of the other things that are now much more responsive than they used to be have no network connectivity that I'm aware of (sony ereader software, for example), so I have no clue why they'd have been affected by this. But uninstalling that one thing has made quite a difference.