ITunes is 'running' (says the task manager) but it never shows up...

i have downloaded the latest version of itunes,
set up my firewall to except it,
done all those other things with deleting a file,
changed other settings that help topics have told me to do...
and it still won't open....like the title says, task manager has it as a process, but itunes is not physically open...
this has been going on for about a month now...
and i'm really getting annoyed with it.

First I'd say reboot, wait for your computer to fully boot, minimize everything, then open iTunes and watch for the license agreement. I know that for me it doesn't display in the task bar and sometimes after updates I forget that it's behind my firefox window and wonder why the heck iTunes won't start.
I'd also double check the entry in your taskmanager to ensure that it really is iTunes and not the iTunes helper that auto-loads. I would recomend using http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/processesandthreads/processexplore r.mspx rather than the default windows taskmanager as it is much more robust.

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