How I fixed my Home Sharing iTunes Issue

I had a very old version of I Tunes running on a Windows XP laptop. 
I upgraded my Iphone to IOS 7 today, my Apple TV too and decided to refresh my version of ITunes on my laptop to make sure it'd all still be compatible with IOS 7.  Everything stopped connecting to Home Sharing....
Here's how it wasn't fixed....
Degrading the iTunes version
Rolling back to a restore point
Repairing the installation of Itunes
Doing crazy stuff on IPV6 to my network
Here's how it was fixed....
Uninstall iTunes
Remove all traces of Apple software from your PC
RESTART
Go to Apple website and install the latest version of ITunes from scratch
DO NOT cut any of these steps out, if you do, it won't work.  If you do, it will fix your problem, guaranteed!
Good luck
MT

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I was having trouble seeing my Nano 2nd in iTunes and was afraid to do this step; but it works. My Nano was updated to version 1.1.1 and now everything seems to work perfectly. Keep in mind you will lose everything that is stored on your Nano when you format it.
Gateway 733mhz   Windows XP  

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