Can you start new ipad to someone elses itunes???

[terrymaz]

I just had someine go pick up my new ipad 2 but do not have itunes at work. Can i use someone elses itunes on their laptop to at least get it up and running? I dont want to plug my ipad into his mac and have it sync his stuff to the ipad.

 

[outphase]

Yes, just don't tell iTunes to sync his stuff.

 

[CobraPA]

Why do you need itunes to get an iPad 'up and running?' If you don't have stuff you want to sync, you can live without itunes for a while.

 

[djmodifyd]

Yep. I'm on vacation and found an iPad in stock here so I picked one up. Dont have my MacBook with that I usually sync to, but I used my wife's to activate it and I'll just sync it up to mine next week when I get back home

 

[terrymaz]

Why do you need itunes to get an iPad 'up and running?' If you don't have stuff you want to sync, you can live without itunes for a while.

wHEN i turned it on the only screen it would give me was a screen showing it needs to connect to itunes. Once connected the regular screen was able to come up.

 

[Stetrain]

I think you can 'activate' the iPad with any computer running iTunes, without syncing with that computer. Apple can activate it at an in-store computer for you because of this.

When I got my iPhone 4 I wasn't going to be home until that night, so they activated it on the spot. When I got home I synced it to my iTunes like normal.

 

[rasputinj]

here is how you do it

To turn on activation-only mode in Windows XP:

"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt StoreActivationMode 1

To turn on activation-only mode in Windows Vista or Windows 7:

"C:\Program Files (x64)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt StoreActivationMode 1

To turn off activation-only mode in Windows XP:

"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt StoreActivationMode 0

To turn off activation-only mode in Windows Vista or Windows 7:

"C:\Program Files (x64)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt StoreActivationMode 0



I use it to setup iPad for the company I work for.