If you’re a Windows Vista user like me [/FX: sound of a thousand Mac fans gasping] and have upgraded to the latest iTunes version, 8.0.1, you may be stuck looking at the following error message:
iTunes error
Apart from the relative inanity of an error for which the software knows the number but can’t translate into helpful English, there’s the question of how to fix it. It seems that the latest iTunes doesn’t like Vista ‘vanilla’ – I’m guessing that Apple have been testing it on fully patched Vista machines. In any case, the cure seems to be to install Vista Service Pack 1, released a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it takes an eternity to install, but at the end of an hour you’ll have Vista and iTunes cosy buddies once more.