ITunes will not open, this is a disgrace, getting very desperate...

Ok, I am going mad here and getting very angry.
Last night, after updating to the very latest version of itunes, it now refuses to open.
I have clicked the desktop shortcut, used the start menu, gone into it through program files and still nothing.
I have disabled my anti virus and firewall (Bullguard) still no good.
I have installed and reinstalled itunes + quicktime together, nothing.
I have removed each of them individually and then reinstalled, again nothing.
I have installed an older version of itunes, nothing. (one from over a year ago)
I can see in the task manager Itunes.exe has loaded and so has itunes helper, but nothing appears on screen. I have ended both those processes and tried loading again, nothing.
I have been looking though numerous online forums with suggestions from other people but nothing has helped me so far.
At the end of my patience, I did a destructive reinstall and restored my PC to its factory settings, thinking that is bound to solve the problem.
That naturally took a while but I have just downloaded and reinstalled itunes and quicktime.
To my complete and utter horror, nothing happens.
So I tried an older version of itunes and again, nothing.
I have created a new user account on my laptop, no difference.
I have also installed itunes to a different directory, not c/programfiles and still it refuses to launch.
Please, please can someone help me with this. My Laptop is running windows vista, 2.0 Intel Dual Core Processer T5750, 2gb ram, (I did have 4gb but one stick failed a few weeks ago and I haven't replaced it yet)
I really cannot see what else I can do, especially as I have restored my PC to its factory settings and it still won't work.
My laptop is about a few hours away from being chucked out of my lounge window...
Please help...
Thanks,
Nick

I have followed instructions found elsewhere to do the following:
•“C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe” -remove (Note: delete the quotes displayed here and type again using keyboard)
•Navigate to the following folder in Windows Explorer: C:\Program Files\Bonjour
•Rename the mdnsNSP.dll file in that folder to mdnsNSP.old
•Restart your computer
•Delete the the Program Files\Bonjour folder
All successful, now there is nothing that has anything to do with iTunes , Quictime, Apple Software Update, Bonjuor,...etc on my machine, now what do I install so I can get iTunes to work on Win 7 x 64 bit edition... ?
Thanks,
Rick
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