ITunes won't start on Windows 7 after update

Last night I had the misfortune of succumbing to iTunes' suggestion to update. Afterwards it failed to start without a single error message. A forum here suggested to update the quicktime player as well, did that. QT player works fine but iTunes still won't start. The exe appears in the processes list but does nothing. HELP!!!!

Did you try and update through itunes or download the installer from the apple website?
I've read some where its better to just download the stand alone installer from apple and
do it that way.

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