I wanted to follow-up quickly on my other posts about the issues I was experiencing with iTunes 8 and my iPhone on Windows Vista. The latest download of iTunes which is still labeled 8.0.0.35, included a rolled-back driver, usbaapl.sys (1.29.0.0) which was from the 7.7 release of iTunes, seems to have fixed the problems I was having (read: couldn’t use the software with my iPhone).
More information about this whole thing from Ed Bott here.
This is ridiculous. Did Apple not do any testing on this product before releasing it into the wild? Other websites are also reporting issues with iTunes 8 on Vista but thankfully I haven’t been having blue screens of death on my setup.
Here is the solution Apple is providing at the moment. Note the requirement to download a new installer.
Hoping this is going to fix the many problems I had again tonight…..
John Gruber writes that there is a fix for the insanely-slow sync of the iPhone with iTunes. Unfortunately it only works on the Mac 
I actually tried this today before reading the article because I was getting slow syncs between the iPhone and my MacBook Pro. I thought maybe the hub I had the phone plugged in to was USB 1.1-only (don’t remember that being the case but stranger things have happened) so I moved the USB cable directly to one of the ports on the MBP and the sync speed was far faster than via the USB hub. I’m not sure why this would be aside from maybe the hub running at USB 1.1 speeds.
On my Windows machine at home where I have the same problem the same fix didn’t work. Moving the cable directly to the PC didn’t result in a faster sync (and yes I have to sync with both). I know for a fact that the USB hub on the PC is 2.0 so maybe thats the reason.
I’ve been having an issue for the last several days where I have not been able to multi-select files in Explorer in Vista. Keyboard shortcuts didn’t work either nor did the Select All menu option (grayed out).
It would appear that this is a known issue and the problem is that the defaults for certain types of file dialogs where you should only be able to select one file are getting set for all folders. Unfortunately none of the fixes worked. Those fixes were:
- Remove the Bags registry key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
- Do a reset folder options under Folder Options->View in Explorer
But I did find a fix and it is listed here along with the script that fixed the issue:
Can’t select multiple files in Explorer
Incidentally I do not have Vista 64. This problem can happen on the 32 bit version as well.
Here is the script I used to fix the problem. It is the same one referenced in the link above but I had to rename the file to have a .gif extension. Please rename to .vbs to run it.
Fix Single Select
