Itunes crashes when:adding folder, comp crashes when ipod is connected

Im having exactly the same problem except that:
- It took more than 10 times to just install itunes without crashing or errors.
- Itunes crashes each time I attempt to import a music folder.
- My Windows XP computer freezes completely the moment my ipod video is connected, both when connected while pc is still off and while it is on.
I've read through the suggestions on the apple site and uninstalled and reinstalled countless times. If someone has some advice please share it with me.
Thanks,
Alex

You'll probably have better luck asking the question here -> Windows EightForums
iTunes isn't designed to work with Windows 8 or any beta software, so theres no suprise that it isn't working as expected.

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.oO(08Green)
> So...a bit of searching, and I read that in order for
the international
>characters to display in phpmyadmin correctly, I needed
to amend my php page
>code so that for all instances where I see the connection
to the database,
>before the SELECT, INSERT and DELETE queries, I need to
add either
>mysql_set_charset('utf8', $connection) or use three lines
of code referencing
>mysql_query SET NAMES, SET CHARACTER SET and SET
COLLATION_CONNECTION for utf8.
Usually you only need to send a SET NAMES 'utf8' right after
the
connection to the DB has been established. That way all data
that is
transferred between the DB and your script will be handled as
UTF-8.
> I did that, and it removed all of my recordsets in the
sidebar menu! Not too
>good. I'm left with a task of rebuilding pages now.
>
> So I placed the mysql_set_charset line in the
connection.php file in the DW
>Connections folder below the connection there instead. [I
didn't precede the
>mysql etc line with a $ sign - I wonder if that's the
issue?]
I've never used mysql_set_charset().
Here in my applications it always works like this:
* the default charset in my InnoDB tables is ISO-8859-1, I
only use
UTF-8 in the columns that really need it (text data, but not
INT or
DATE columns)
* SET NAMES 'utf8' at the beginning
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* all pages delivered as UTF-8 (my pages are
script-generated, so I use
an appropriate header() call to define the content-type and
encoding)
That's it. Oh, and I don't use phpMyAdmin ...
> With this change I could use the Insert forms to add the
international
>characters directly into the database and see through
phpmyadmin that all was
>hunky dory. But then the problems came with first loads
of the master list
>page.
In the first part of your posting it sounded as if it worked
almost
correctly, before you tried to fix the broken phpMyAdmin
appearance.
Is that correct?
> So, I can get international characters into the database
now (which is a step
>in the right direction for me), using an insert form on
the website, but I
>still can't get the international characters to display
on the returned page on
>first loading eg on a list of jobs.
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Revert that.
Make your script work for normal input/output from/to a
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> I've tried other forums - but people seem to be content
with viewing but not
>offering assistance. I don't believe that what I'm doing
here hasn't been done
>before....all I want is for my pages to display
international characters and
>for these to display correctly in phpmyadmin so that when
I insert, update and
>delete records using webforms I don't have to resort to
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