Sharing Itunes in Windows XP

Hi All - a few questions that I hope you can help me with. Thank very much.
a) How do i share itunes in XP with multiple profiles?
b) When itunes is in startup, does it launch before you log into a profile or do you need to log into a profile and that is when itunes launches? How is this best done?
c) I think that itunes can't run concurrently across profiles...if i am having it launch in startup of profiles (and sharing the same database) does that mean that each time one of the three profiles on the computer launches three instances of itunes is going to launch. And how does this affect doing the above?
Thanks again for your help.

That is one way to do it. There is another way, which is only slightly more difficult, but which you might find more attractive.
Basically, iTunes expects to find your library files in the "My Music/iTunes" folder. However, "My Music" is a special system folder, its location is defined by Windows.
If you download TweakUI, you can use it to set where your My Music folder is. So, if you create a folder that both you and your wife can access, and then set both of your My Music folders to be that folder, then you will have a shared library. No syncronization needed, changes you make to one will happen to the other because you both have the same library files.
Only downside to this is that you can't use Fast User Switching and thus have both people logged in and using iTunes at the same time, because while one of you has the library open, the other can't access it until you close it.
It works fine.

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