ITunes very slow to start with large library

Why doesn't iTunes start immediately for me but take about 5 mins to start for my husband, my account has about 50GB of music, my husband has about 150GB.
How can this be speeded up?
thanks

Okay, now with 5 minutes I would have said something is wrong. 1.5 minutes sounds a bit high on your faster machine but I'd hazard to guess that there are a lot of variables that may be affecting this. I timed mine at 25 seconds (did you actually time his, really, honestly, truly?). I have more RAM than you and dual processors, though a slower machine. DP help in multitasking and may give me an edge. If you have other programs open and doing things when opening his itunes maybe there is competition and it slows things down. Or maybe somebody will come on and say I'm talking rubbish.

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