ITunes not Opening...I FIXED IT!!!!

Ok, after two whole months of not
figuring out the problem...
I fixed it!
Woo!
Right when it happened I told
the situation to my friend.
She told me she had the same
problem and it happend because
she deleted a program called Safari,
Apples version of internet explorer, firefox, ect.
Well I just thought, you know, she's an amateur
she has no idea what she's doing. But
I downloaded it weeks before to download a video
and when I uninstalled it, iTunes and quicktime quit
working. So again I downloaded safari yesterday do download
another video and...it worked
So, if anyone is having the problems trying to launch itunes,
just download safari and it should start to work again.
I recieved an error messege trying to open the programs.
"Itunes ecounctered a problem and needs to close"

Well Safari is embedded in iTunes. Its used for browsing media in the store. But it should have been re-installed when you re-installed iTunes.
If not, there is serious issue with Apple's Add/Remove process.
It sounds like it removed the software, but left the registry entry suggesting it was still there.
There are about 20 different threads on this issue, so you might want to post a link to this thread in those thread.

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Hmmm...that is an interesting question. It shuts down now, but would not before? Perhaps Norton was busy doing something. To be totally honest, I hate Norton, its expensive and a HUGE memory hog. My PC ran much slower when I was using Norton. Since removing it and going to a free antivirus program, it has speeded up tremendously.
Depends on what you disabled during MSCONFIG. Whatever you disabled was most likely the culprit to that as well.

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Well, after trying to figure out what was going on with iTunes not opening at all. It turns out that by default for some reason Windows Xp Firewall disables it from opening it. iTunes however is acting like a server for the simple fact that you exchange data between your computer and iTunes Store. Since there is no option to force this connection to happen, you have to get ZoneAlarm to do so. I’m using ZoneAlarm Suite Edition, but it also works with the free Edition of ZoneAlarm. So what ZoneAlarm does is actually enables the connection between your computers data (iTunes) and iTunes servers to connect.
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Just A Correction. In The Line ....The first time it will prompt you about itunes.exe running as a program (Click Yes) and the second is very important since this is what enables iTunes to make a forced connection with iTunes servers (Click yes again)...
Instead of "Click Yes" its supposed to be "Click Allow".

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osx:
10.6.7
iTunes: last update
Since last iTunes update, I am experiencing problems in opening those streams:
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Remove and reinstall iTunes and related software
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204275
Make sure to remove both the 32 and 64 Bit versions of any Apple software installed on the PC
iTunes 12.1.1 for Windows (64-bit — for older video cards)
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1784?locale=en_US
Best of Luck

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I have stated every issue I’ve had so far in a fairly clear and concise way. I think if you read what I wrote, it all makes logical sense as to what is going on. Windows 7/8 would work just as well on a Mac if it was supported the same way the OS is for other OEMs.
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Message was edited by: ticklememanda

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