ITunes launching problem

All of a sudden iTunes is failing to launch on my PC. I've tried opening the program via desktop shortcut, programs and when I plug my iphone into the USB socket. All of these methods worked until two days ago.
I can see that iTunes is running in the processes list in Task Manager but nothing else happens. I have tried various remedies as suggested in other postings in this forum but all to no affect.
As far as I know I have not installed any updates for any of the iTunes related software, although I did defer an update last Sunday but I have used iTunes since then.
Some of the remedies suggested seem only to be for Windows XP so I would be grateful if someone out there who uses iTunes on Windows Vista (32) could suggest how I could solve the problem.
Thanks in advance.
binzauk

iTunes does not require admin rights to open it. I am using it on a limited user account, but it does require it for installation.
If you think there may be a problem with your account, you could try creating another admin account and see how you get on using that.
That is a standard part of troubleshooting freezes anyway.
I would check to see if Quicktime works as iTunes can't work without it, then work through this troubleshooting article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1717
The important first step is to discover if the problem is confined to one account.
If you do not resolve your problem doing that, you could try *method 4* in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798
Note that you need to open the cmd window with run as administrator.
Copy and paste each line into the cmd window and make a note of any error messages.
You will get 3 dlls showing up as not found as they are only present in XP.
This is a diagnostic test and will not resolve anything as you already tried re-registering these dlls.
The problem is that Vista defends its system dlls and doing anything about about errors found is more difficult than XP and I do not have any direct experience of doing it.

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