Itunes and Quicktime wont open!

Hi all,
My itunes randomly stopped working the other day. Everytime i open it a message appears saying that there was a problem and it needs to close! i removed itunes and tried to reinstall it but now it wont reinstall. I figured quicktime might be the problem so i tried to remove it too but it wont remove from my computer and i dont know what to do now :-/ anyone able to help me??

In recent times, the error-message-free iTunes and QuickTime launch failures have been indicating that another application has stashed old QuickTime componentry in your system files. (Those sorts of applications often use the Visual C++ runtimes to keep track of the componentry, so it seems consistent that an update to those could cause the symptoms to flare up on a PC.)
So just in case we'll go looking for older QuickTime componentry in the most common locations for it to be stashed.
First we'll need to change some view settings.
In your Start menu, open Computer.
In your Organise menu, select Folder Options.
In the View tab, make sure that "Show hidden files and folders" is selected, and Hide extensions for known file types is unchecked.
Click OK.
Now in Computer, open your C:\ drive (or whichever drive you have your operating system installed on).
Open the "Windows" folder.
If you have a 32-bit Windows 7, open the "System32" folder.
If you have a 64-bit Windows 7, open the "SysWOW64" folder.
What files and folders can you see in there with QuickTime in the title? (In a standard installation of Quicktime you should be seeing precisely two files ... QuickTime.qts and QuickTimeVR.qtx ... and no QuickTime folders whatsoever.)

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Click OK.
Now in Computer, open your C:\ drive (or whichever drive you have your operating system installed on).
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If you have a 64-bit Windows 7, open the "SysWOW64" folder.
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a message keeps popping up that says::
itunes has encountered an needs to close...send//dont send error report.on some topics i read that the problem may be quicktime-related, so i tried opening up my quicktime player. however, that would not open either!
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