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Do I need Bonjour on Win 7?

Anonymous
2015-04-20T19:17:26+00:00

I have iTunes, and connect my iPhone & iPad to my PC, but would like to remove Bonjour if I don't need it for those specific items. What say ye?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-04-20T21:06:21+00:00

    Hi,

    Bonjour is Apple software and for further information ask in their Community..

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2250

    Q. Why do I have Bonjour on my Windows system?

    If you didn't install Bonjour for Windows manually, the most likely reason is that it was installed by an application that relies on Bonjour functionality. For example:

    • iTunes uses Bonjour to find shared music libraries, to find AirPort Express devices for streaming music to, and to find Apple TVs.
    • Safari uses Bonjour to find devices advertising web pages on your network. Many of today's network printers, network cameras, and wireless gateways provide a web interface for status and configuration, and many of these devices (especially network printers) now advertise those web pages using Bonjour, to make them easily discoverable in Safari.
    • Internet Explorer, via the Bonjour toolbar plugin, also provides easy discovery of Bonjour-advertised web pages.
    • The Bonjour Printer Setup Wizard uses Bonjour to discover and set up Bonjour-advertised network printers.
    • Adobe's Creative Suite 3 applications use Bonjour to discover digital asset management services.

    Cheers.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-04-24T23:45:18+00:00

    I look after about 160 computers.  I frequently find Bonjour causing many, many errors.  I almost always simply uninstall it and tell my client to contact me if it causes problems.  They never do.

    I believe it is there to provide some functionality that almost no one ever uses.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-21T07:33:05+00:00

    More of what Bill listed -

    "Bonjour for Windows includes a System Service that helps applications discover shared services on the local network, printer discovery wizard, and IE plug-in for discovering local Web servers.**"

    This would include your i- stuff .

    • If you can't get a satifsactory answer to if you need it,  just uninstall it. 

    If you loose functions you need/want it is easy to reinstall.

    I don't have i-Tunes but did have a driver for one of my peripherals that started using Bonjour, but

    I went back to an earlier version as Bonjour was getting lots of errors, and I had no use for the

    functions it was associated with.

    From what I've seen Bonjour has been buggy... for ever.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-20T21:17:24+00:00

    Thanks for the reply. What I really want to know is if any other Windows users have done what I'm contemplating, and if so,what was the result? I don't know that I'll get much of an answer from the Apple Community because most of those folks detest Windows anyway.

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