The only workaround that seems to be available right now is to uninstall iTunes and install an older version, and then ignore the update to 12.12.06. I still received the same error and iTunes doesn't start. I tried installing iTunes on a fresh Windows VM which I had lying around (same OS release and updates, no other software installed), which never had any iTunes version installed or used on it. We tried reproducing the error, but on our four test machines (2x updated Windows 10 21H1 and 2x Windows 11 22000.194 in VM), iTunes installed and opened fine, which seems to indicate an environmental issue, but one that is affecting more than a small number of people it seems.Īs also pointed out in the Stack Exchange topic posted by user Massimo, this also affects clean installs of iTunes (on systems that never had iTunes previously installed). Running a repair, and uninstalling iTunes and then rebooting before attempting the reinstall, as documented here by Apple, resulted in the same error for one user on Stack Exchange.

Itunes not working on windows 10