Quicktime missing

After Getting a new pc with windows 7 it will not allow iTunes to start.  Something about Quicktime missing yada yada yada.  I treid a couple of the suggested "tricks" and file naming whatnots but to no avail.  I even made sure that the compatability was "off" and then again to select Windows Vista Service Pack 2 as another thread suggested.  I eve tried to load iTunes 6 from a website but even THAT failed to load. HELP! My music is monopolized by Apple. -Mark

The most likley thing is a problem with the %Path% enviroment variable.
The location of Quicktime is normally the last item in the list.
Work computers often have a network path in the path variable and if that location is not available and it occurs before the loaction of Quicktime, iTune gives up looking for Quicktime.
The solution is to move the network location to after Qucktiem in the %Path% variable.
In order to check this, type
cmd
into your search box and click cmd under Programs.
The black cmd window will open.
Next copy&paste the following into the cmd window and press return:
echo %path% >documents\path.txt
This should create a file- path.txt - in your documents folder which you can look at in notepad. If you paste the result into your next post, I can take a look and see if there is an obvious problem.
Fixing the issue involves editing the path variable, but we will get to that if my supposition is correct.

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