Itunes has taken over my laptop

when I download Itunes all the icons change to the itunes logo and when i try to open any application itunes start
please help..

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ITunes has taken over my computer

Don't get me wrong--I really like iTunes since I bought an iPod Nano and installed iTunes on my computer. But...I seem to have lost control of all things audio. When I put in a CD, it plays in iTunes instead of Windows Media Player like before. When I play a song from the My Music folder, it plays in iTunes instead of WMP as before. I'd just like to have a choice. What do I do? Thanks.

Just as an experiment try approaching it the other
way. Find a song in windows explorer, right click and
select properties. The 'opens with' will (in your
case) likely show iTunes. Click the Change button and
find your preferred player and ok that choice. It
should change all files of that music type to play in
new player.
Windows XP Pro
Thanks. I did that with a CD and it worked just fine because I got the drop-down box allowing me to choose the player for all similar files. When I tried it with an individual song in Explorer, it did just as you said except that it made the change only for that song (file). I checked other songs' properties and they all have itunes as the choice, so it appears I would have to change every one of them. BTW, I have a grandson who is a sophomore at the University of Michigan in the USA who is studying right now at the University of Melbourne. He says everybody he has met in Australia is nice.

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