Outlook Sync won't close in iTunes 8.1

I've found 8.1 to be a huge improvement as 7 used to regularly cause my computer to freeze up entirely. But I am having difficulty with the sync.
The sync itself works fine, but after syncing is complete and I close iTunes/unplug iPhone, the Outlook sync process and the iTunes Helper.exe won't shut down, even via task manager. I have to restart my computer to get it to stop, then everything is fine until the next sync. It's not a questoin of giving it time as last night I left it running to see if it just took a while to shut down. This morning they were both still running.
The strange thing is I'm not even using anything Outlook related with iTunes. I sync to Safari 4 for bookmarks but all my contacts/calendar/mail are done directly on the iPhone using the google exchange push, so there's no reason for the sync to Outlook to be running at all.
Any ideas on why this is happening and how to stop it please?

I have searched high and low for the right solution for this issue. I'm on an HP Envy laptop, running iTunes 12, and just upgraded to Windows 8.1.
I tried the settings for bit rate as suggested above and it still didn't work, but I did solve the problem.
In iTunes I went to Preferences > Playback > Play Audio Using ... and changed the setting from "Direct Sound" to "Windows Audio Session"
Now my iTunes on my laptop works!

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