ITunes wont open due to locked file.

I downloaded iTunes, but I get a message saying "The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file."
I uninstalled and reinstalled in several times now but I get the same message. I checked to see if the files were locked but I can find nothing about anything being locked. How can I fix this? (I have windows 7)
Message was edited by: Tillman23

OK - I did some googling and somehow managed to fix it.
A lot of suggestions mention finding the iTunes Library.itl file and making sure that "read only" is unchecked, but I'd already done that and it still didn't work. So I then did this:
1. Right-click the iTunes Library.itl file and select Properties.
2. Select the Security tab
3. In the “Group or user names” box select “Users”
4. In “Permissions for Users” box select “Allow” all the way down the list.
5. Click OK.
When I tried opening iTunes after that, it said that the iTunes Library.itdb was locked, so I did the same thing for those files. And now iTunes is working again.
Whew! Hope that helps.

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