ITunes locking up upon opening

For whatever reason, all iTunes does now when I open it up is instantly lock up. I tried it twice, restarted by MacBook, and tried it again but only got the same result. What could be going on?

Huh, it just finished opening. I guess it wants to take about five minutes to open now.
There is definitely something wrong with that.

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Moved to Adobe Reader.
Assuming you are running Windows, try running the Acrobat/Reader Cleanup Tool, then re-installing.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/acrobatcleaner.html

ITunes freezes computer upon opening

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ITunes locks up upon booting of iTunes Store.

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your profile says you're running Mac OS X 10.5.6. if that is correct, try upgrading to 10.5.8 using the +combo updater+. download it from here: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate, repair permissions before and after installation.
when done, run software update from the  menu and install any updates offered. restart your machine for good measure.
if that doesn't help, try removing iTunes completely (click here and follow the instructions), then download the current version from here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.
JGG
edited by the Jolly Green Giant (where Green stands for environmentally friendly)

ITunes freezes up upon opening

MY recently downloaded iTunes 9 keeps freezing up as I open it. Sometimes, I'm able to click into iTunes Store or one of my Music playlists or other tabs, but then it freezes right away after that. Today, I tried upgrading to iTunes 9.0.1 through Apple Software Update, and it succesfully downloaded. But, midway through the installation, it said something like error occurred, please try using tools > download manually. But now iTunes 9.0.1 won't even show up on the updater. What should I do?

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ITunes stops immediately upon opening after installing on Windows 8 64 bit Laptop

I've installed and uninstalled iTunes 11.1 64 bit version several times but every time I try to open it I get the error message that it has stopped running and windows will try to find the probelm. Unfortunately Windows doesn't tll me anything.
My other machines (XP, Vista Home and Windows 7) work fine with the latest iTunes versions.
Would appreciate any help. I've tried all the help documents on Apple's site.
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iTunes 11 works fine on my three Win 8 PCs
Try:
Trouble installing iTunes or QuickTime for Windows
Next try posting in the iTunes forum.

ITunes Hung-Freezes Upon Opening

Before I go into the specific problem, here is a brief history of what has gone down the last few months, just in case you see the problem there.
November 07:
System begins to systematically fail. Back everything up to an external hard drive, then reset OS. All is well.
Mid-November 07:
I notice that many songs didn't get transferred to external hard drive, usually whole albums, so my iTunes is missing about 250 songs I do not presently possess. But wait, I realize they are all safely tucked away on my iPod! So I download Senuti, Isync, and IpodRip trying to extract the songs. None work. Shortly thereafter, I notice shoddy iTunes to iPod performance, meaning certain songs from new albums do not get uploaded. Later, I get a message saying iTunes cannot be read from or written to. All the while, it says the are X number of songs that cannot be found while opening.
Today:
All was going fine until today when, iTunes library of 4000+ is randomly reset to 55 of the first songs I ever imported. Weird. Luckily, the music folder is fine, and I drag it in (as I never exported a saved library). This in effect deletes the songs that had missing/unlinked files, so I decided to plug in my iPod, conceded that I would never get the songs back that way. However, before I could, it kept freezing up of doing the gapless playback info, getting caught on two songs and repeating the process.
When I did plug in the iPod, the same error message came up. ***. I read Apple's page on the matter, and think it might be related to Senuti, etc., so I delete those. No effect. Now I decide I have nothing to lose, and hit restore button. Now when I plugged in iTunes, all that happens is a few lousy podcasts sync and nothing else. Afterwards, iTunes would not even work, and according to Activity Monitor, would get "hung" right after opening. ***. Please help. Need iPod. Need iTunes....

Haha. I have about 45 GB of content total. (thousands of songs, hundreds of audiobooks, hundreds of music videos, a few movies) I'm using the most recent version of iTunes, whatever it is. =P and my computer is very screwy. I've had it freeze 3 times where I had to restart the computer by holding down the power button, and sometimes the screen becomes covered with noise and the monitor becomes completely useless for a few minutes.

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PC is approximately 3-4 years old. itunes is 10.6.3. something (it's my parent's computer, getting the info second hand) Their internet connection is satellite based (ah the wonders of living in the country ).
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Had them try repair through the windows control panel, no dice. It used to open without a hitch or delay. They've had ths same internet service now for 8+ years.
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In the course of your troubleshooting to date, have you worked through the following document?
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I have been anxiously awaiting a new patch hoping that would fix the problem, but thus far, no luck.

+Nope, the only things I've put onto my iPod is about a gig and a half of music and half a gig of pictures. Only programs/plugins on it are the three games that came with the iPod itself.+
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ITunes locking up upon opening

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