win32 error when downloading itunes

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:15:00 -0800, JacD
<JacD.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have purchased a new ipod shuffle and it requires itunes version 7.2 or
>later. However, I cannot download the new version because I get a "not a
>valid win32 application" error. I have an ipod nano which has been working
>fine on the itunes but just seem to be having trouble downloading the latest
>version. Very frustrating because I cannot use the new ipod shuffle until
>this problem is fixed.


OK there's a fairly simple fix for that
(on windows - this is the Mac group BTW !)

If you go to the Start menu, choose Run then type in

regsvr32 vbscript.dll

Press enter key, and wait for confirmation to pop up.
Repeat that but this time type

regsvr32 jscript.dll

Press enter again and wait for confirmation to pop up.

If you're running Vista instead of XP the steps are similar, but
you'll need to run those commands as adminstrator - you should be able
to do that by pressing Shift and Ctrl keys when you press enter (and
you'll get the message 'this command is asking for permissions...)

After those steps, you should then be able to run the itunes and
quicktime installers without that error message.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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