What do iPodServices and IFTPservice do? How can I kill the processes?

April 1, 2004 4:30 PM

I finally got around to upgrading my 2nd gen Ipod's (PC) firmware to version 1.3 .
All went well, but now I found "IPodService" running full time as a process and access is denied in task manager when I try to shut it off so I can delete it. Whats it do? How do I kill it? (same goes for "IFTPservice")

(I'm running win2k sp4)

posted by Fupped Duck to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

In my experience, this service only runs when your iPod's connected. You can kill it after that. I'm using a 1st gen iPod on an XP SP1 machine.

If you're really upset, (giggle) buy a Mac.
posted by armoured-ant at 5:30 PM on April 1, 2004

Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and look for processes with those names and descriptions. You can right-click on a process to bring up its Properties, and from there stop and/or disable them. If it's necessary for interfacing with your iPod, you'll probably want to set the Startup type to Manual.
posted by Danelope at 5:39 PM on April 1, 2004

I've noticed this process runs on my machine (Win XP Pro) - and I don't even own an iPod. It seems to be part of iTunes.
posted by sixdifferentways at 2:03 PM on April 2, 2004

Yeah, that annoys me, I got iTunes right when it was released for Windows and then found it was running stuff in the background all the time (even when I hadn't started iTunes since the last time I started my computer) without any indication (such as a taskbar icon) that it was doing so. Then I uninstalled iTunes.
posted by dagnyscott at 7:27 AM on April 3, 2004