ZDNet's Ed Bott has discovered that the jukebox software installs crash-prone drivers without informing users (let alone asking them). Bott says iTunes 8 installs not only QuickTime, but also Apple Mobile Device Support, MobileMe, and two driver updates. One of those drivers-a USB controller update-reportedly identifies itself in many users' blue-screen error messages. The other-GEARAspiWDM.sys-has "a long and colorful history of causing Windows crashes," according to Bott.
This driver [GEARAspiWDM.sys] is typically used with third-party programs that write to CD and DVD drives. The old iTunes versions of this driver is dated January 29, 2008. The new one is from April 17, 2008. . . . I remember dealing with it back in Windows 2000 days. And sure enough, a search for GEARAspiWDM.sys BSOD turns up thousands of hits. I've also found anecdotal reports of this driver causing iTunes to crash, including this one from the Gear Software forum last May.
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Don't install latest copy of iTunes 8 - causes blue screens
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Oeps, it asked for a update this morning so i did cause the previous version just kept freezing up when i wanted it to close. I haven't rebooted yet though so that maybe why i haven't had any problems yet.... I declined to install that mobil shit though 
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don't people beta test stuff nowdays?
<<<<<< or maybe he was the beta tester?
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Or you could download and install an earlier version of iTunes...
http://filehippo.com/download_itunes/
http://filehippo.com/download_itunes/
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