If iTunes for Windows prompts you to authorize your computer when you try to play purchases

You lot might not be able to authorize your estimator due to issues with account or folder permissions. Go on below to fix the outcome.

Effort authorizing your purchases with a different Apple ID

Yous might have used a different Apple ID to buy the items that you want to play. To check, right-click the detail and await for Remove Download in the card. If y'all see Remove Download, y'all're signed in with the Apple ID that you used to purchase the item. Select Remove Download, and so redownload the item.

If you don't see Remove Download, follow these steps:

  1. On your PC, open iTunes for Windows.
  2. In Library, find a song that you bought from the iTunes Shop and select it.
  3. From the card bar at the top of the iTunes window, choose Edit > Get Info.
  4. Click the File tab. Look to the correct of "purchased past" for the Apple ID that you used to buy the item.
  5. Authorize your reckoner using the Apple tree ID from step 4, which might have changed since y'all bought the item if y'all updated the countersign or email address associated with that Apple tree ID. If you lot forgot your Apple ID countersign, visit iforgot.apple tree.com.

If y'all're not sure if your Apple ID has changed since you bought the item, check the purchase history of that Apple tree ID for the item to confirm that the item is on the listing of purchases.

Turn off User Account Controls

In iTunes for Windows, you can set up some authorization bug if yous reset your User Business relationship Controls. To reset your User Account Controls in Windows seven or subsequently, follow these steps:

  1. Press the Windows key on your keyboard. If your keyboard doesn't have a Windows key, press the Control (Ctrl) and Escape (Esc) keys on your keyboard.
  2. Click on the magnifying icon or search field. In the search field, enterUserAccountControlSettings.
  3. Click UserAccountControlSettings.
  4. If asked if yous want to allow this app to make changes, click Yes.
  5. Move the slider to the bottom setting.
  6. Click OK.
  7. If asked if yous want to permit this app to make changes, click Yes.
  8. Restart your computer.

So, turn User Account Controls back on.

  1. Printing the Windows cardinal on your keyboard. If your keyboard doesn't have a Windows key, press the Control (Ctrl) and Escape (Esc) keys on your keyboard.
  2. Click on the magnifying icon or search field. In the search field, enterUserAccountControlSettings.
  3. Click UserAccountControlSettings.
  4. Move the slider back to the setting that yous want.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Restart your computer.
  7. Try to qualify your computer again.

Remove the SC Info folder in Windows

To work properly, iTunes needs the SC Info binder on your computer. You tin can authorize your computer to play your purchases if you remove the folder. So, allow iTunes recreate it.

  1. Quit iTunes.
  2. Press the Windows key on your keyboard. If your keyboard doesn't have a Windows fundamental, press the Command (Ctrl) and Escape (Esc) keys on your keyboard.
  3. Click on the magnifying icon or search field. In the search field, enter %ProgramData%, then printing Return.
  4. Show hidden files:
    Windows 10: Click View, and so select "Subconscious items."
    Windows 8: Click View, then click Options. On the View tab, select "Show subconscious files, folders, and drives."
    Windows seven: Click Organize, then click "Binder and search options." On the View tab, select "Show hidden files, folders, and drives."
  5. Open the Apple tree Estimator folder, then open up the iTunes folder.
  6. Correct-click the SC Info binder and choose Delete from the popular-upward carte du jour.
  7. Restart your computer.
  8. Open up iTunes.
  9. Try to authorize your estimator again. If you have multiple Apple tree IDs, authorize your estimator for each Apple ID.

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