Slow Ipod update with itunes

When ever i plug in my ipod to update with itunes it takes FOREVER. Why is this? Can I help this and make it faster? I have alot of video podcast and movie content thet changes alot so is that why its sooooooooooo slow. Just to let you know, the computer itself isnt slow. Its one of the fastest ive ever used. PLEASE HELP!!! ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!

I've been frustrated w/ the speed for a long time.
When I first got my video ipod it took over 24hours to initially load it. This was w/ only 10-12GB of music.
The other week I had to reinit my ipod and fully reload it. This time I had approx 12GB of tunes, and tons of video files. Total load size around 50GB. This time it took just over 12 hours.
I discovered that the video interface of the Windows version of iTunes is a CPU hog.
Minimize iTunes while its loading your iPod. This more than doubled my data transfer rate to the iPod (over USB2.x)
fyi, I run an old PCI ATI graphics adapter. My friends w/ way faster graphics never complain about the speed issue.
On older versions of iTunes I also found that it helped to set all the iTunes processes affinity to the boot strap proc (first processor typically as Windows sees them). This had helped w/ speed, but also helped eliminate blue screens. The need to do this seems to have been eliminated in the v7.x iTunes.

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When initially connecting my iPod, its litearlly took all night (several hours) to get all the music into my iPod. It was 6000 songs and 40GB.
Now evertime I connect my iPod to my PC, it takes about 45-60 minutes to update, even though no changes were made to the music in the library.
Is this normal? For it to take that long to update every time I connect? I know I can shut off the automatic update, but this seems like a very long time, and there may be something wrong.
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evertime I connect my iPod to
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though no changes were made to the music in the
library.
During these updates, does iTunes show "update in
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I perviously had a problem with muisc being greyed out on my ipod due to me syncing the it with my library, I easily fixed the porblem to allow manual updates of single tracks in ipod options.
Since then I have got a macbook and stopped using windows, so I had to reformat my ipod and sync the songs to start with, but not everything will fit and I want to add tracks I really like and remove those I dont like so much, but with itunes 7 all I can seem to do it sync my library with my ipod due to the introduction of the ipod menu and disappearance of the ipod opitons section.
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I've been frustrated w/ the speed for a long time.
When I first got my video ipod it took over 24hours to initially load it. This was w/ only 10-12GB of music.
The other week I had to reinit my ipod and fully reload it. This time I had approx 12GB of tunes, and tons of video files. Total load size around 50GB. This time it took just over 12 hours.
I discovered that the video interface of the Windows version of iTunes is a CPU hog.
Minimize iTunes while its loading your iPod. This more than doubled my data transfer rate to the iPod (over USB2.x)
fyi, I run an old PCI ATI graphics adapter. My friends w/ way faster graphics never complain about the speed issue.
On older versions of iTunes I also found that it helped to set all the iTunes processes affinity to the boot strap proc (first processor typically as Windows sees them). This had helped w/ speed, but also helped eliminate blue screens. The need to do this seems to have been eliminated in the v7.x iTunes.

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Do you have a safe place where I can download iTunes 11.xxx?
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