Step-by-Step Guide to Installing iTunes Without Extra Bloatware

Today we take a look at doing a minimal install with a step by step tutorial.

Last week Ed Bott wrote upThe unofficial guide to installing iTunes 10 without bloatware.

Then download the iTunes 10 installer and we can begin clean and fresh.

For this article we’re using Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit.

After downloading the iTunes 10 installer, extract it with any file extraction utility.

Here we’re using 7zip to kick off the archive.

Now you will see everything in the iTunes 10 installer which as you know is several components.

The cool thing is that you don’t need them all.

Here we made a folder called iTunes Minimal.

Now kick off the folder you extracted the files to and you should see the three files.

To initiate the Command Prompt in Windows 7 punch in cmd into the Search Box and hit Enter.

When you’re finished you should see something similar to this in the Command Prompt.

Of course yours will be different based on your rig name and the location where you extracted the files.

One screen you’ll see is that the Bonjour service hasn’t been installed.

We don’t need it anyway.

But for this minimal install, we don’t need or want it on our machine.

And there you go!