ITunes Freezing Both Windows Explorer and Itself!

Hello!
I understand that this has been happening a lot lately due to the new iTunes version (or rather, the newest version of Quicktime?). I'm a little afraid to reinstall iTunes now because as of recently, it's been freezing up my Windows Explorer and genuinely messing up my entire PC. I've had to do a factory reset to it twice in order for me to actually use my computer again...
So, I was wondering if there was actually a fix for this now. And if there isn't, are there any ways to avoid having my PC rendered useless?
Here are my PC specs, btw:
http://www.microcenter.com/singleproduct_results.phtml?productid=0313924

I get it during the install. thank you for replying Pat.

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