Itunes taking over 1 minute to load

Hi,
I have over 1500 songs in my itunes library. It used to load really quickly, but it seems the more songs I put into the library the longer it takes to load now. It takes over 2 minutes from clickling on the icon to itunes loading. Is there something I can do to make this quicker. My PC is brand new. It has over 1gig of memory and dual processor, so it isn't the PC which is causing it to run slowly. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks DAWN

hi Dawn!
hmmmmm. first check to see if either your qttask.exe or ituneshelper.exe have been disabled on startup:
Background processes installed with iTunes 6 for Windows
to do so, head into your MSCONFIG, and make sure that the are both checked in your startup items tab.
Using MSCONFIG to troubleshoot conflicts in Windows
if they were unchecked, check them, restart the PC, and try launching itunes again.
any improvement in itunes startup performance then?
love, b

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