ITunes will not open because Quicktime!help!

I clicked on the iTunes icon on my computer and a message pops up saying "Quick time is required to run iTunes.Please reinstall iTunes" and all u can do is press ok! how can i open my itunes???

Oops! The same thing happened to me recently. I removed Quicktime from my computer using the Add/Remove Program button in the control panel; I didnt realise that you need Quicktime for iTunes to work. To solve the problem you need to reinstall Quicktime - you can dwnload it from the apple website by itself - or download all of iTunes again - it comes with Quicktime. If you do this youwont loose any of your iTunes library, because you will be updating rather than starting again.
Good luck

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