Itunes does not open at all

When I click on the desktop icon for my itunes, it does not open. Instead a window opens that says, +The itunes application could not be opened. The required folder could not be found.+ My folder was not deleted. It is still on my computer. I can acess it, in my user account. But I can't open itunes anymore.

Hi b noir, thanks for your reply. I did initially look at the itunes trouble shooting page and I tried to follow what they said to do for user specific trouble shooting. But I have no idea where to find this: ■C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes
■C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes
So I can't do it if I can't find it on my machine. I'm assuming 'C' means disk C? and I found 'users' when I right clicked 'Explore'. Then I found my user name and opened it. Then I was lost because I cannot find AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes or AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes. So I was unable to go any farther. That's when I posted my problem here. Can you or anyone else help me farther? Unfortunately I need something more specific, then what itunes trouble shooting is prepared to give. I forgot to add that my pc is shared and my kids' itunes open just fine. So this is definitely a user specific problem! Is it possible that something I downloaded the other day, corrupted the library? I deleted the offending song, and re-started, but itunes still didn't open. Not that I expected it to work that easily but it was worth a try.

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