One of my least favorite things that Apple does to every Windows computer during an installation of iTunes is that it installs Bonjour. On almost every Windows machine I've installed iTunes on, Bon...
The short answer is Bonjour is a service (i.e. constantly running computer program) that runs on Mac OS X computers. It's purpose is to manage services and resources on your Local Area Network (LAN) with absolutely no intervention or configuration from you. Examples of services and resources include the following; Printers Fax Machines Access to files on other computers Apple TV devices to ...
Bonjour for Windows has not been updated for quite some time, however it does still work under Windows 64bit installations even if it is not itself 64bit. Some more esoteric software for Windows will need and use Bonjour but the other main use for Bonjour in Windows is to make it possible to add printers via Bonjour auto-discovery. It used to be quite a hassle to add network printers to ...
good luck! You’re correct. Discovery is a useful app, and one I use around here, though it requires some knowledge of Bonjour. I am unclear why a third-party app would suggest this path using Discovery (and again, Discovery is a fine app), as the app you are trying to use itself should be able to detect and report Bonjour traffic issues.
Bonjour Print Service does work with Windows 10. For a time, I couldn't get Bonjour Print Services to run in my new ASUS Windows 10 PC. Guys at the Microsoft store told me to install the latest iTunes for Windows, but that didn't do anything. I could see the mDNSResponder.exe in the Programs File/Bonjour directory, and a mdnsNSP.dll and dns_sd.jar, but no Bonjour Printer Wizard. So I went to ...