My iTunes won't open what to do?

i will like click it a million times and it just won't open. help!

Try and use Microsoft's Cleanup Utility and then reinstall Quicktime/iTunes:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
Make sure it's a new and fresh download from:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
See if any of these help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302538
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302386
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302775
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
If not mentioned in the articles, make a new user account in Windows and see if iTunes opens. That will tell you if there's something funky in your main account (if the new user works), or if you have a system-wide issue.

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of months now.
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After installing the latest itunes update, itunes
won't open at all. I click on it and it just won't
open.
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say?
or are you getting no error messages whatsoever? if
so, could you let us know the results of the
following observations?
reboot your PC. open Task Manager to the Processes
Tab. now try to launch itunes again.
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so, does it persist in there, or does it disappear
after a few seconds?
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b noir - i have been following your advice and i want to thank you for taking your time to try and solve these problems for ipod users.
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