iTunesHelper.exe
iTunes by Apple Inc. (Signed)
Overview
iTunesHelper.exe has 29 known versions, the most recent one is 11.2.2.3. iTunesHelper.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. During installation, a run registry key for all users is added that will cause the program to run each time any user logs on to Windows. The average file size is about 248.16 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Apple Inc. by the certification authority VeriSign. The programs iTunes, VoiceOver Kit and Evernote v. 4.6.4 have been observed as installing specific variations of iTunesHelper.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0008% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 5.09 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 11.34 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 379 Bytes per minute for reads and 106 Bytes per minute for writes.
What is iTunesHelper.exe?
Apple software includes iTunesHelper or iTunes Helper, is a program from Apple that runs in the background and monitors for the connection of any iPod or iPhone to the computer, if an iPod or iPhone is detected it will automatically launch the iTunes application. The functionality is the same on both Mac OS X and Windows PC’s.
About iTunesHelper.exe (from Apple Inc.)
“iTunes is a free application for your Mac or PC. It lets you organize and play digital music and video on your computer. It can automatically download new music, app, and book purchases across all y”
Details |
File name: | iTunesHelper.exe |
Publisher: | Apple Inc. |
Product name: | iTunes |
Description: | iTunesHelper |
Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\itunes\ituneshelper.exe |
Certificate |
Issued to: | Apple Inc. |
Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
Expiration date: | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of iTunes.)
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Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting info...
“With adsl TV , you can watch live free live TV without TV tuner , full screen or in a corner of the screen of your PC, watch web TV online , listen to live radio on the internet , freeze emissions cur...”
Amazon MP3 is an online music store owned and operated by Amazon.com. Amazon MP3's catalog is accessible from the Amazon.com web site by searching for an artist or title name. To download purchased mu...
Apple's iTunes is a proprietary media player computer program, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone and iPad....
“Enabling VoiceOver for iPod allows you to hear the names of songs, artists, and playlists spoken when listening to content on your iPod. If you have the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic or the In-E...”
Apple's iTunes is a proprietary media player computer program, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone and iPad....
QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. QuickTime for Microsoft Windows has always be...
Apple Application Support is required to run iTunes, QuickTime and other Apple installed products (do not remove this if you use any of these programs). If you remove this program you will need to rei...
“QuickTime Player 7 supports older media formats, such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime movies, and MIDI files on Snow Leopard and OS X Lion. It also accepts QuickTime 7 Pro registration codes, which tur...”
“iPhone Configuration Utility lets you easily create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorized applications, and capture device info...”
With a Windows PC, you can use Apple Software Update for Windows to keep your Apple software up-to-date via the Internet. Apple software includes Safari, iTunes for Windows, Bonjour for Windows, and Q...
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. It is based on the WebKit engine, which is a fork of KDE's KHTML engine. Safari has a number of features. Some are specific to certain operating systems...
“Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perf...”
µTorrent is a is a free, ad-supported, lighter-weight BitTorrent client designed to consume less resources then the full BitTorrent version. Some uTorrent installs include potentially unwanted applic...
“AMD Radeon™ RAMDisk is a kernel-level driver that presents a standard disk drive to the Operating System. It creates a drive letter similar to C:/drive and can be assigned a name (e.g. RAMDisk) for re...”
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |
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“rom the ruthless artificial intelligence of the original UNREAL, the death gladiator chaos of UNREAL TOURNAMENT and beyond, the Unreal franchise is the king-of-the-hill in multiplayer carnage. Unreal ...”
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handw...
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Flagship Industries, Inc. |
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“Ventrilo is comprised of two primary Components: The Client that every end user will need to download, and the Server. Only one person needs to host a Server that all of the other Clients will connect...”
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IDM Computer Solutions, Inc. |
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“Text editor, HEX editor, HTML editor, PHP editor. Suitable for general text editing, programmer's, web designers, binary editing, email, and all your editing needs. Key Features include: Disk based ed...”
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of iTunesHelper.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'iTunesHelper' → "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
All file variations of iTunesHelper.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Windows 7 Home Premium |
45.00% |
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Windows 7 Ultimate |
12.50% |
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Windows 8.1 |
7.75% |
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Microsoft Windows XP |
6.00% |
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Windows 8 |
5.50% |
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Windows Vista Home Premium |
5.25% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
4.00% |
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Windows 8 Pro |
3.50% |
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Windows 8.1 Pro |
2.75% |
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Windows 8 Single Language |
1.25% |
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Windows 8.1 Single Language |
0.75% |
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Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.75% |
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Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
0.75% |
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Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.50% |
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Windows Vista Business |
0.50% |
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Windows 7 Home Basic |
0.50% |
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Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
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Windows 7 Starter |
0.50% |
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Windows 7 Home Premium N |
0.50% |
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Windows 8 Pro N |
0.50% |
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Windows 8.1 N |
0.25% |
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23 other Windows OS version |
Distribution by country
United States installs about 49.50% of iTunes.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
PC Manufacturer | distribution |
Dell |
22.02% |
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Hewlett-Packard |
18.53% |
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Toshiba |
17.25% |
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ASUS |
9.17% |
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Acer |
8.62% |
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Sony |
8.07% |
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Lenovo |
6.97% |
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Intel |
2.57% |
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GIGABYTE |
2.02% |
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Samsung |
1.28% |
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American Megatrends |
0.92% |
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Alienware |
0.73% |
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Compaq |
0.73% |
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NEC |
0.73% |
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Sahara |
0.37% |
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