Deauthorizing a Computer for iTunes

RWB

I screwed up my main rig, and am going to be reformating it, it won't connect to the internet any more becuase of some tweaks that involved uninstalling hidden drivers

So yeah, on top of that I can no longer authorize any other computers if I wanted to since it's my last one since I had originally not known that I had to unauthorize my computers before reformating them since I had no clue what it was way back then.

Is there any way I can keep it or deauthorize it? I am still working on getting the internet back before I reformat.

RWB

I managed to get it working again... thanks anyways

shwaip

I assume you just de-authorized all your computers. Or is there a way to just de-authorize one?

RWB

No, youc an only do one.... hince why I only have one available authorization. I think you can have 3 to 5 usually so you can play back your music on all of them. But it won't allow me to do that anymore.

shwaip

You can de-authorize them all at the same time if you want, and then only re-authorize the computers you want to be able to play them (you're allowed 5 computers)

If you go into the music store, and click on your e-mail addy next to where it says "account:" you should be able to find the option for de-authorizing them all.

primesuspect

be careful - they only allow you to do that once a year (deauthorize ALL machines).

If you want to deauthorize a single computer, you have to email their support department and explain why you didn't have the chance to deauthorize it before you reinstalled it or whatever. I always just say the same thing: "My hard drive crashed, thus making it impossible to deauthorize" and they write me back a bitchy response "we're not supposed to do this, but we'll deauthorize this one time" but they always do it.

RWB

I see where it tells me how many authorized computers I have, but not where I can deauthoruize them....