New computer, new hard drive, old hard drive available

The mother board on my computer self destructed. Purchase new computer with larger hard drive, installed old hard drive as secondary drive. I had to install new copy of Itunes on new hard drive for it to work. I still have my old unusable Itunes on my old hard drive in the new computer. It seems I read here that there are certain files that can be copied to new Itunes that contains all your old information and settings putting the new copy of Itunes back like it was before problem.
We have very intelligent people here that know a lot more than I do. Does anyone know just what files I need to replace in the new Itunes so IPhone can sync safely without losing applications, music list etc.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

ANSUZ82, I understand what you you told me to do concerning the two files, Library.itl and Music Library.xml. Since I had already attempted a few things on my own before, I thought best to remove Itunes using Windows Add & Remove Programs. It looked to me that it did remove Itunes. I then downloaded another copy and installed. Before doing anything else, I ran Itunes only to discover it had the same appearance and faults as before.
I noticed there are three other Apple programs installed. Apple Application Support, Apple Mobile Device Support and Apple Software Update. I assume they were installed at the same time I first installed Itunes. This computer was brand new as of Feb 6. What would be the results if I removed these three Apple programs? I want to start off with a fresh copy of Itunes and all that goes with it and then put to use the advice I have received here.
I even went to the effort of activating this new computer and was told that this computer was already activated. Took steps to unactivate this computer and activate again and received the same message.
Thanks for sharing your expertise and time on my behalf.

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