Installationfail Itunes on Windows 8 brandnew laptop

Goodmorning, yesterday I bought a new Sony Vaio E serie laptop with windows 8. I am trying to install Itunes.
This however is not as easy as I am used to.
I changed popup settings and all the other things they recommended, but unfortunally nothing worked so far.
I have an Iphone so it would be great to be able to use it again through my laptop and Itunes.
Please HELP!!

Diesel,
When I push the button "download now" nothing at all happens, no errors no nothing! That would have made it a little easier, but unfortunally!
So I go the the screen of downloads, push the button in the top, if not blue...then I go to the menu in the left corner below. Both times I push 'download now' and nothing appears...

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The only functinoality I crave is to be able to get pictures off my iphone 5 (which has the latest ios installed.), as almost all other functinoality of itunes I find painful beyond belief. It has the worst ergonomics I think of any software I have ever used, which is bizarely at odds with the mobile decvices, which by and large work quite nicely (indeed, why I bought them!)
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