This is my first post to this exchange. Being a programmer, I'm a huge stackexchange user and always get my answer so hopefully I will have success here. Apple support stinks.
On windows 7 64bit.
My itunes was working fine and was in mist of purchasing songs, but could not verify my credit card details at checkout and then some error occurred. I restarted and plugged in my iphone and then itunes said it could not connect to iphone until upgrading to new itunes version. Well, I've used the iphone/itunes version before so I knew this was BS. Long story short, I upgraded and now it cannot connect to Apple ID Server. I downgraded version and same thing.
What's really strange is that my iCloud connects just fine.
I went through all the checks Apple suggests…the connection, the winsock, disable firewall, system date, etc, etc…and nothing seems to fix it.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
I know I'm using windows, so don't be hate'n. I am bootcamping on imac so I'm not all bad. lol.
Best Answer
After some time, I came back to this and tried some other things and got my iTunes connecting again.
On my Windows side, I use GData for my security and it has firewall settings, min-max. I always keep it on max for tight security, but I tried lowering it to one below max and that worked. Oddly, when I disabled firewall altogether, that did not work for me. Also, sometimes I have to lower setting to two below max to get iTunes to connect. Very strange, but it works.
What is really strange, is that I could not connect on my MAC side either, which is not running GData.
I got a work around and I'm fine with that.
I hope this helps someone else.