How do I back up my Itunes files?

My computer hard drive is crashing and I really need to back up my itunes files. How do I do this??? I put the music on my flash drive, but it is not big enough to hold anything else... I have other places I can save stuff... How do I save apps and other stuff and how do I know that everything in my Itunes is safely backed up? And how do I get it all back into Itunes when my new hard drive is installed? Any and all help is apprieciated. Thank you!

The easiest way is to just copy your entire iTunes folder (in My Music in your user's folder) to some other place. Then you can just copy it back to the same location when your drive is replaced and Windows reinstalled and set up.
Regards.

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