Itunes opening itself

Itunes keeps opening itself on my macbookpro. I thought it might be the music sharing wirelessly. I changed my setting to no sharing, ended the program and turned off airport. A minute or so later the program was open again on my desktop.
Has anyone ever seen this or know how t stop it.
It randomly drains my battery life.
Thanks!

alexandrakgallery,
Welcome to Discussions.
The most obvious reason is an iTunes related Widget.
If you have one or more, disable it/them and see if it helps.
If it does, enabling them again, usually will not cause the problem again.
M

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I'm surfing with Safari or any other programm (iTunes is completely shut down), and every few minutes iTunes opens itself. I didn't press any link to open iTunes or anything else like import music. It's getting on my nerve. Please help.
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P.S.: Excuse my bad english, I'm German.;-)

Do you have an iTunes related Widget running?
It could be the reason of iTunes opening by itself.
M

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Don't know the specifics of your issue, but I was having the same problem. Just a zombie iTunes that would launch by itself every 15 min or so. After research, found the issue to be the iTunesHelper ap, which launches at boot and is designed to launch iTunes whenever an iPhone or iPad is detected. Must be a bug, but my Macbook swore it was seeing an iPhone or iPad. I've also heard of similar issues with 3rd party keyboards, etc. I believe the culprit was an iPhone emmulator for web design.
Through Activity Monitor, I quit iTunesHelper and have had no problem since.
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http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/cant-install-xcode-because-itunes-fix/
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This is usually related to third-party apps or widgets that are attempting to talk to iTunes. If you have any such items, disable them and see if it stops.
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The title asks the questions.

Found the solution to the problem. Probably not the best fix, but it works.
I have upgraded to Snow Leopard, but I don't think it changes anything...
There is ONLY 1 WAY to configure the AX to make it work as we expect.
You must check the option "Create a new WiFi network", even if what seems natural is to check "Connect to an existing network".
Then, name your network, like for instance "MatFromParisse Network", select the security level you want and password.
If required, you select "Connection via Ethernet", EVEN IF NO ETHERNET PLUG connected.
IPv4 configuration: "Via DHCP".
This all look like you are going straight in the wall and doesn't seem natural...
Then on the computer you are using iTunes on, select the network you just created (like "MatFromParisse Network"), instead of your usual network.
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Not professional, but it works.
I have spent 50 hours in total to make this work, the equivalent of 5 working days. I sell my working days 2,000€/day, so I value my lost time to 10,000€ to make this stupid thing work. I wish not to thank Apple for the complete lack of support (hotline doesn't even know what means error -6710).

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my problem is just as the subject says!
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