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Airport Base Station Agent? iTunes Helper?
#31469 10/08/14 02:56 PM
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What do these things do and do I need them? I am not using an Airport router and what does iTunes helper do? They are using CPU and was wondering... If I don't need them, how do I turn them off?


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Re: Airport Base Station Agent? iTunes Helper?
slolerner #31472 10/08/14 04:25 PM
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OSXDaily has the following comments on your processes, how to disable them and what the consequences of disabling are:

- AirPort Base Station Agent
- iTunesHelper


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alternaut #31474 10/08/14 09:10 PM
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Thanks. Airport Base Station is gone, but I had already disabled iTunes Helper in Startup items and it was still there. So I went into iTunes Prefs and set pref so that connecting a devise does not automatically launch iTunes but that didn't work either, it is still running after restart. Not a big deal, but weird?

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slolerner #31475 10/08/14 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted By: slolerner
I had already disabled iTunes Helper in Startup items and it was still there. [...] it is still running after restart. Not a big deal, but weird?

GageGecko (last post in linked thread) suggests renaming iTuneshelper.app (Option-click iTunes.app > "Show Package Contents"> MacOS folder) will prevent it from launching and being added to Login Items. You may have to repeat this after updating iTunes.


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