I've had iTunes for a while. Now, whenever I click on the icon to open it, it just doesn't open. What's the problem? Why won't it download?

I've used iTunes for a while on my PC. The icon is on the desk top, but in the past few days, I can't get it to come up. I also can't seem to find a sign-in link on the main iTunes website. Any suggestions? I wanna listen to the music I've purchased!!

When something that used to work stops doing so, the most likely culprit is corrupt preferences. So that's the easiest first troubleshooting step. Go to HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences, delete the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist file & then restart Pages. In Finder, hold down the Option key while clicking on the Go menu & your user Library will appear about halfway down the list. Or you can choose Go to Folder from the Go menu in Finder & paste this line in the box:
~/Library/Preferences
Did you install Pages by copying it from another drive? The iWork apps don't do that well at all. The Mac App Store will report an application as installed if it is on any connected drive, not just the start up drive.
If deleting the plist doesn't fix the problem you will have to delete the existing Pages & reinstall. The files to delete are the iWork ’09 folder from the main HD > Applications; the iWork ’09 folder in HD > Library > Application Support & the individual iWork application plist files found in HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences for each user. The easiest way to fix the problem is to use Yvan Koenig's AppleScript that removes the files. Yvan's box.com account often is out of bandwith. I have put a copy on my Box.com account in the iWork folder. Download uninstall iWork '09.zip, decompress it, open it in AppleScript Editor and click the Run button.

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Hmm, well... iTunes trys to activate your iPod using the Apple server to make sure you have bought it legit.
Two things come into my mind:
1) Your iTunes can't access the internet.
2) Apples activation servers are down.
That's just my cents, maybe anyone else has an idea.

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Unfortunately, this sort of trouble has gotten more complicated to deal with ever since Microsoft pulled the Windows Installer CleanUp utility from their Download Center on June 25. First we have to find a copy of the utility.
Let's try Googling. (Best not to use Bing, I think.) Look for a working download site for at least version 3.0 of the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. After downloading the utility installer file (msicuu2.exe), scan the file for malware, just in case. (I use the free version of Malwarebytes AntiMalware to do single-file scans for that.)
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(If you do find a clean download site for the correct version of CleanUp, please don't tell me where it is. Without wishing to sound paranoid (although I grant it does sound paranoid), there is a non-zero chance that posting links to download locations for the utility here at Discussions leads to that download location being shut down.)

TS4123 I have used iTunes for awhile and now on my laptop when I try to open iTunes I get the following message. "The file iTunes Library.itl cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. Any help or suggestions?

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Thank you

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has any one been having the same pronlem?

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Nothing is worse than IE.
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Then create a new profile and start FF again. Now you can import your bookmarks.
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