Help!! iTunes won't launch and I have tried EVERYTHING!!!
HELP!! I updated iTunes to 10 in December and ever since I can't get iTunes to launch. An hour glass will come up, then nothing. When I go into Processes, it doesn't show iTunes running. All it shows is iTuners Helper. I have tried EVERYTHING. I have uninstalled and reinstalled 100 times trying everything from uninstalling, running a virus scan then reinstalling to reinstalling an older version, to disabling Bonjour to uninstalling Quicktime. I have spent countless hours on message boards trying to solve this. Please someone offer some guidance or a different solution. It is getting really frustrating not being able to listen to music on my PC or being able to update my iPod. Thanks!
You haven't given much information about what you have tried so starting from the beginning:
Have worked through this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1421
If you have and it didn't help, at least you should know if the problem is system wide, or confined to one account. This is an important first step.
Error message free launch failure can be tricky, and it is easiest if iTunes.exe persists on the processes tab as that means that iTunes is launching, but getting stuck.
If you watch the processes tab in Task Manager while launching iTunes, does iTunes.exe appear and then disappear, or does it never even appear?
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