Album View Freezes with iTunes 11.1.2

After installing iTunes 11.1.2, any time I display the album view, iTunes freezes for between 30 seconds to 1 minute. If you are starting iTunes
with the album view as the default, it will freeze on starting as well. Also any changes when in album view will cause the freeze, e.g. adding an album, changing properties on an album, etc.
This only happens if the album view contains a large number of albums, e.g. over 2000 albums. The more albums, the longer it freezes. This didn't happen in 11.1.1, album displays on my PC were fast.
I tried deleting and rebuilding the album art cache, but that didn't help. Any thoughts?

I've spent 4 days trying to overcome the exact same problem that DougOle has described. I have a huge library, but never experienced a slow and laggy response. One click just to open an album will immediately display "Not Responding" in the Windows Task Manager and takes 30 seconds to 1 minute for execution. I'm not sure whether it's iTunes 11.1.2. or Windows 8.1, or both that's causing the problem.
Despite previously running smoothly alongside iTunes, I've uninstalled BlackBerry Link and Samsung Link, but to no avail. It made no difference at all.
I've stopped a whole bunch of processes at Start Up; this made things a little better, but clearly was not the problem. I've shut down all major components of McAfee Total Protection, but again this made no difference. I'm now at a loss.

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What I had to do was maybe a combo of everything suggested here and what I did. Don't know for sure, but I am not going to try to break it again to find out.
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