{"id":122,"date":"2012-04-12T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2012-07-09T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:25:20","slug":"solution-applesyncnotifier-exe-corefoundation-dll-was-not-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-applesyncnotifier-exe-corefoundation-dll-was-not-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution: AppleSyncNotifier.exe &#8211; &#8220;CoreFoundation.dll was not found&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>AppleSyncNotifier.exe&#8230;.This application has failed to start because CoreFoundation.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the frustrating startup message you may encounter if you have iTunes installed and you&#8217;re like many, many other unlucky people out there. \u00a0The suggested solution on Apple&#8217;s website is to reinstall some other related iTunes components (<em>Apple Application Support<\/em> and <em>Apple Mobile Device Support<\/em>). \u00a0Unfortunately, this hasn&#8217;t fixed the issue on any machines I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the <em>foolproof <\/em>solution is to <strong>uninstall MobileMe. \u00a0<\/strong>Odds are you don&#8217;t use it anyway, and getting rid of it fixes the years-old problem that Apple still hasn&#8217;t resolved.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, while we&#8217;re on the subject of terrible Apple software, their Bonjour program\/protocol is equally guilty of such problems. \u00a0Open up your Application Event Log (Start &gt; Run &gt; type <strong>eventvwr.msc<\/strong>\u00a0and press ENTER) and look around. \u00a0See if you aren&#8217;t one of the <em>very many <\/em>afflicted by the errors that Bonjour inexplicably adds to the log. If you are, you&#8217;ll have a hard time missing them: there are generally <em>many thousands<\/em> of them, relentless, back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>All of this Event Log activity from Apple&#8217;s program, by the way, is nothing good for your PC&#8217;s performance or reliability. \u00a0The Event Log service is not meant to record so many duplicate errors so regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Apple might make great Apple products, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone in saying that their PC software (for one thing) is absolutely nothing special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppleSyncNotifier.exe&#8230;.This application has failed to start because CoreFoundation.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. This is the frustrating startup message you may encounter if you have iTunes installed and you&#8217;re like many, many other unlucky people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-applesyncnotifier-exe-corefoundation-dll-was-not-found\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,82,87,86,84,83,80,85,81],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies","tag-apple","tag-bonjour","tag-dll-file","tag-dll-files","tag-errors","tag-event-log","tag-itunes","tag-libraries","tag-mobileme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}