ITunes 10 very slow and pegs processor

Ever since I upgraded to iTunes10 on my Windows 7 machine it has run like absolute garbage. It is ridicliously slow to do anything, right-clicking on a media item and choosing "Get Info" takes 10 minutes to open. *10 minutes!!*
Also one of my two processor cores is constantly pegged at 100% when the app is idle.
Specs are a Core2Duo @ 2.7GHz, 8GB of RAM and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
Anyone else having this problem?

Sweet Jesus! I thought I was the only one suffering from Apple’s newest bloatware. I am to the point that I avoid adding content to my iPhone 4 because I simply do not have the time to wait for iTunes 10 to respond. I have many audiobooks and simply selecting (“clicking”) them requires me to wait ten seconds or so for the “tick” mark to display. This is simply an exercise in frustration. However, I am fully aware of the problem(s). Initially, iTunes was an agile application that allowed easy access and management of one’s music collection. Today, iTunes has become a bloated and intrusive application that lost the elements that made it great. No longer is it an application to quickly and efficiently manage ones music collection. Because of, I use Media Monkey for real music management. Then, I copy the music into iTunes. Notwithstanding, I do not need an application monitoring my music collection (Genius), nor do I need an application to build my social network. Generally, applications improve over time. However, with each version, iTunes becomes larger, slower, and even more invasive. Perhaps with iTunes 11, we may see some version of a relationship services provider. Subsequently, we will have an application to assist with making friends and strengthening our love life. I hope that somewhere between all these distractions, one may still be able to access and manage his or her music compilation. Until that arrives or returns, I will continue to use Media Monkey for heavy-duty music management such as mass tagging scripts, Meta data tagging editing, etc.

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Why is iTunes crap for Windows but runs good with Mac. If apple is going to make iTunes for windows they should maybe try to fix it first, iTunes lags a lot and freezes many times. Its the only program on my computer that does that. Apple should fix iTunes for windows. iTunes is maybe another reason why my songs are gone from my iPod.

Well if its running slow and freezing, it and/or quicktime is conflicting with something, like windows, the CD drive, antivirus/security programs or some other software.
Try defragging your harddrive. Leave iTUnes closed and oopen Quicktime to see if it opens or throws an error message up when playing something in it. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes (Version 6.0.4.2) by going to help>aboout If you don't have the latest goto apple.com and download it
Also goto the PC makers site and download the latest updates and patches, some systems have patches that directly address iTUnes issues

ITunes suddenly very slow and full of broken links

What could be bogging down iTunes on my Mac. Internet service seems unaffected but iTunes is slow and many broken links showing pics (album covers, etc.). Other programs seem fine. Auto updates are on and running iTunes 8.

Let’s try this:
Restart your mac
Safe Boot: Hold down the shift key after the chime until the Apple logo appears and the gear is moving.
It will take awhile but you will be asked to login.
Go to your Applications folder> Utilities and launch Disk Utility.
In the left side column, highlight your drive and repair permissions.( button down below)
Empty the trash.
Restart your mac.
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Here are my Etrecheck results....can anyone help me get my computer faster? Problem description: Computer very slow-.and unresponsive EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121) Report generated April 16, 2015 at 10:19:42 AM EDT

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When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
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from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
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Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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ITunes very slow

With version 9 iTunes has become very very slow and is often unresponsive for a few seconds when I switch to it from another app. Any ideas for optimization? (I've turned off Crossfade, Sound Enhancer, Sound Check, and Sharing.)

If you have a big library (tens of thousands of songs or more) then itunes will get slow. The bigger the slower.
I assume you are running on your macbook. How much memory does it have? The delay you see when switching to iTunes maybe due to lack of memory and having itunes swap back in. You can use activity monitor to see if memory usage is an issue.
Also, if you are using power save features this can cause a lag (especially if the disk holding the itunes library has spun down) You might want to temporarily disable disk sleeping (and perhaps other power saving features) if you are plugged in. If it helps then you can seperately tune the pluged in v.s. battery settings to get it work as best as possible.
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I upgraded my three year old ipad to IOS 8 and it's working very slow and irregular, can I go back to the old settings?o

I recently upgraded my three year old ipad to IOS 8 and it's working very slow and sometimes freezes. Can I go back to the old system?

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Indesign image display is very slow and jerky

good morning
I contacted Adobe Customer Service in Italy because I have big problems with the Creative Suite CS 5.5, in particular with Indesign and in general with the display of images of AI and Acrobat.
As I work with Indesign image display is very slow and jerky. Even with AI and Acrobat work experience is not good, the images are jerky and there are hesitations in the fluidity of view.
The software is installed on windows 7 64bit Utlimate, the workstation is very powerful: Supermicro motherboard, dual Xeon E5620 2.4ghz, 16gb ram, SSD OCZ vertex4, PNY Nvidia Quadro 4000.
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In efects had observed that CS 5.5 on my notebook works better, but I never thought about having problems because the PC is powerful. I checked the CPU and GPU when using Indesign and I could see that uses a single CPU, and most "only 1 core"! But of CPUs in the system there are two for a total of 8 cores. Indesign seems to use only 1/8 of the available computing power ... In addition, practically does not use the GPU (only 10-15%).
From the customer service was suggested to disable or remove a processor from the system. All this seems to me incredible. I use the workstation for applications that can take advantage of the power of the machine, should I remove the processor whenever I have to use CS 5.5? If things are this way I'm thinking of asking if Adobe buy me a PC with a single processor only for use with CS 5.5 ...
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Interesting idea, I'll investigate in this direction, I should try to make a mirror of the ssd on a traditional hard drive, exchange them and see if the situation changes. It must, however, be a further factor in the eventual bad combination hardware ... on my laptop I have: windows 7 x64, intel core i7 processor, 16gb of ram, nvidia quadro 3000m, and .... a ssd ocz agility 3, but indesign is more responsive.
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I updated my iPod touch 4g 64gb to iOS 6.1 and now it's been very slow, safari keeps crashing, apps being very slow and crashing ? Can anyone help ?

Next
Try:
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I was working on my 2008 Macbook Pro yesterday and it restarted on its own. Now, when I log in, it loads very slow and will restart unexpectedly.

Reset you SMC which can fix power-related issues, and also reset the PRAM (see below). If that doesn't fix it, please post back.
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hi everyone I have a 13 inch mid 2012 MacBook pro,
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also there is a very strange clicking noise when I lift the mac up or if its on its side and sometimes it just randomly freezes, the computer does not respond and then it restarts.
what do I do?
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" the fan didn't seem congested with dust, at least not enough to cause any malfunction."
The lint and crap builds up in the heat exchanger radiator. It's the grilled thing at the output of the fan.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2012+Fan+Replacemen t/10367
Look at step 6. It's that grilled thing at the top of the fan. If you remove the fan that radiator is probably clogged with lint. Brush it all away and if possible blow out the fan with compressed air. Make sure the fan turns freely and doesn't feel stiff.
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