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Question

I upgraded to iTunes for Windows ver 5.0.1.4 despite what I read as anguish by some other users on these boards.
But, what I saw after the upgrade was no different than what I saw with the first 5.x 'upgrade.'
I started iTunes and watched Windows Task Manager. iTunes immediately, despite no songs were played, took up over 50M bytes and kept that allocation. Then, I stopped iTunes, watched its RAM usage and rather than disappear from the task manager screen, not only remained but continued to show 48 Mbytes usage of system memory.
The only reason I went through this exercise was because after running iTunes (and exiting it) my system had some unreasonable lock-ups and loooong delays when trying to go to links on web pages or otherwise try to do things other than iTunes.
Has this iTunes version been adequately been debugged before release. From my results, I don't think so.
And yet, I don't see an Apple link for going back to a previous version, but only user forum links to sites that typically don't work to retrieve older versions.
And, before you ask, the operating system is current, as are security updates. Spyware and virus checks have been run with current signatures.
My only concern is that this software is thoroughly debugged before inflicting it on us.
Op sys is Windows XP, Sp2, RAM: 1GB, up to date for both windows updates, spyware (MS) and virus (Norton/Symantec) signatures and scans.

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Op sys is Windows XP, Sp2, RAM: 1GB, up to date for both windows updates, spyware (MS) and virus (Norton/Symantec) signatures and scans
gaah. would that be Norton Internet Security 2005, SK1? this cluster of symptoms started hitting new
b 4.9 installs
a few weeks before the 5.0.0.35 launch, and was cured in at least three reported cases by an upgrade to 5.0.0.35. we had actually had NIS 2005 launch-suppression problems with 4.8 and 4.9 prior to this, but that was generally a much milder version of the phenomenon (not associated with the slow shutdowns, for example).
let's first see if the Jordana trick works for you:
Lisa Bissell, "ITunes won't work" #4, 09:12pm Sep 28, 2005 CDT
... and if not, try this:
b noir, "Does 5.0.1 Upgrade Work?" #6, 05:02pm Sep 27, 2005 CDT
(EDIT: you're not reporting the classical symptom of this, which is launch suppression, but we need to try to get this issue off the table before we check your QT version number.)
keep us posted on your progress.
love, b