MY ITUNES WILL NOT OPEN, IT BOUNCES THEN STOPES AND DOES NOTHING

how do i make my itunes open up, i click on it and all it does is bounces then does nothing, it isnt even letting me shut down or restart my mac, how can i fix it??

Force Quit (Cmd+Opt+Esc).
Repair permissions on your HD (Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility)
Worst case, download AppZapper and install it.
Drag the iTunes app from your Applications folder to the AppZapper window and "Zap it" to the trash. You'll need to enter your password to trash iTunes.
Download and reinstall it from here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

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Itunes will not open at all

hey guys,
ever since I've reinstalled my pc with windows xp pro sp3, my itunes will not open at all.
every time i click on itunes.exe it does not do anything. It does give me the hourglass icon as if my pc is working on it. but then it disappears without any itunes response.
to fix this issue, I have tried any possible method that i could find on the internet. even called the support center but they were not able to help me either.
I have tried to reinstall itunes *(no effect)*
did something with the cryptographic something in the administrative tools menu *(no effect)*
I have deleted the itunes installer cache *(no effect)*
I installed any older versions,( btw 7 does not work either)but after updating it *(no effect)*
itunes 6 does work; but since i have an iphone it is completely useless for me. so *(no effect)*
the strange thing is that itunes.exe does appear in the "processes" tab in task manager, but it does not show in the "applications" tab.
and every time I shut down my pc, I get the windows message that itunes is shutting down.
If you have any other suggestions, please be so kind help me.
this is driving me nuts. It's been going on for two months now.
Kind regards,
Bart
Message was edited by: Pleinvrees

Pleinvrees
I am not sure if I have this right from all those posts.
When you try to start iTunes, there is no error message and you can see iTunes.exe persisting on the processes tab of the task manager.
If that is your probelm it is commonly do to a problem with cryptographic services.
Before looking into that there is a quick thing to try:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1776?viewlocale=en_US
If that's not it, work carefully through *method 4* in the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798
Make a careful note of any error messages you get, this is important. post back the names of any dlls mentioned in error messages.
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