ITunes in Windows is horrendous

Is there ever likely to be a day that Apple gets iTunes in windows right?
I spent 1.5 hours last night trying to add a new movie to my daughters ipod touch...
1. the application is a memory hog and takes 2+ minutes to fully load
2. Switching between tabs is painful, waiting up to 10 seconds each time you click on a new tab
3. I tried to re-sync the ipod (to add 1 movie) and for some reason, itunes thinks that it is synced with another library (which is impossible as I only have 1 computer)... So it proceeded to erase everything and re-load everything... A painful 45 minutes wasted, watching it very, very slowly copy all the music, videos and apps back on the device..
Just let me copy and delete movies easily... I don't want to sync everytime... sometimes I just want to add a song or movie... but I have to wait the obligatory 5-10 minutes every time while iTunes wastes my time...

whitsey! wrote:
... for some reason, itunes thinks that it is synced with another library (which is impossible as I only have 1 computer
It is quite possible to have multiple iTunes libraries on the same computer.

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Connect both machines to the home network. One machine is the "Active" machine, which has most recently been used for iTunes media, purchases, ratings, etc.
On the "Active" machine, File-->Library-->Export. Save the file as "Library.xml" on the shared drive of the other machine.
Right-click "Library.xml" where it's been saved, and open another file that has two lines in it: The root path of the iTunes library on one machine and the root path of the iTunes library on the other machine.
Do a find/replace all in Notepad to make the library XML file point to where the files will be saved on the "Inactive" machine.
Run Microsoft SyncToy to synchronize the files between both music libraries; the most recent files win. This avoids copying the entire multi-gigabyte library over the network.
Open iTunes on the "Inactive" machine.
Go to Music, Select All, Delete. Keep files.
Do the same for Movies, Music Videos.
Go down to Playlists, select the top one, hold down the delete button until they're all gone.
File-->Library-->Import Playlist. Choose the "Library.xml" file you saved.
First a status bar comes up that says, "Importing library." It has the continually-scrolling progress bar, not the one that starts on the left and steadily creeps right. Then after about 30 seconds, that clears out. Wait. Typically a few minutes. Eventually a status bar will pop up saying something like, "Evaluating gapless playback information," or something like that.
The "Inactive" computer is now the "Active" computer. I can now play my library, it has all my playlists and metadata from the other machine.
Delete all the duplicate playlists named "Music," "Genius," "Purchased," and "iTunes DJ."
Well, I just upgraded to iTunes 10.2.2 a few days ago and tried to do this again like I've done it dozens of times before. Now, iTunes just goes unresponsive after the library import. It got through the "Importing library" bar to the long wait and stopped. I can still multiprocess and use other programs, but iTunes is hovering back there not responding to clicks. Task Manager doesn't seem to think iTunes is using my CPU, and I don't see my hard drive rattling. Any thoughts on why iTunes might hang up when importing a large library?
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Hello,
My iPod is not being recognized by iTunes or internet
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revo1059 wrote:
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