My itunes wont open. Why? (Windows)

It started when I was deleting some stuff on my old dell to free up some space, when I got rid of something called application support, thinking that i was something to do with some tutorial (in other words something trivial and fairly pointless) but after trying to open itunes it said that it was missing a file, the application support, and could not open. Is there any way of fixing this. RE-INSTALLING WONT WORK, ill just end up losing all of my music etc. which is at least £100 worth. Help is much appreciated.

We can try extracting it from an iTunes installer.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleApplicationSupport.msi to do a standalone AAS install.

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