Anyway to speed up iTunes starting up?
iTunes seems to take a longtime to startup on both my iMacCoreDuo and MBP 4.1. I have less than 100 songs and videos. Any ideas on how to speed it loading up?
thx
lenn
Users>Me>Music>iTunes>iTunes Music folder.
It's on my internal hdd btw.
lenn
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