Why does iTunes slow down my whole computer?

I did a quick search for this topic and couldn't find anything, makes you wonder.
Running iTunes on XP is like swimming through molasses.
I understand I'm running Apple software on a Windows platform and they're like at war or something...but seriously, a little professionalism would be nice. I just want to put songs on my shuffle...so I can go jog. I don't want to have to run a marathon before I even get out the door.
Is there some kind of patch, or update, or special download that isn't "iTunes for Windows" that...you know, can make my iTunes actually run on Windows? Thanks.

My PC destroys the minimum requirements for iTunes. Heck all I need it to do is maybe play music and transfer songs to my shuffle...which, I used to be able to do on my thumb-drive based mp3 player on any computer anywhere with zero software. Is there like an iTunes light?

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It's very difficult to say without knowing more about your system. There are a number of possibilities. First, your 13" lacks a discrete GPU, so the CPU is doing the work that a GPU would have done as far as decoding video streams, etc. Each video stream will consume considerable resources from the machine, and if you have multiple things running with video streams being decoded (for example, a browser with video Flash or cumbersome animation and iMovie running at the same time), then that may be a factor.
Additionally, it could be that you are memory constrained. You didn't post a picture of the process list from activity monitor or the memory usage stats, but you probably want to look and see what the memory and CPU usage is and who's consuming what. Some applications are pretty inefficient. For example, if you have iPhoto open and have thousands of images, the indexed metadata and thumbnails are all stored in RAM. iMovie pulls in clip thumbnail sets - (and worse, it has to do on-the-fly transcoding video assets from some cameras that don't encode the video using the parameters it expects to make indexing frames easier). Again, this would show up as periodic spikes in CPU activity for the app.
You seem to have plenty of disk space, that's not likely to be a problem.
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this is unacceptable. because of this, i will never buy anythig from itunes store again.

Welcome to the Apple Discussion
I'm sorry to hear of your problems. However, I wonder if iTunes screwed up your computer? Perhaps there's another, core issue with your Hard Disk? Have you run any Hardware Diagnostics?
Regards
TD

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Try this,
Close your iTunes,
Go to command Prompt -
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(Win XP SP2 & above) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/Command Prompt
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netsh winsock reset
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Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          2 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          667 MHz
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When I use my macbook pro running lion 10.7.2 to play music through itunes it shuts down after about 2 minutes, is there anything I can set to keep the itunes open and playing when not in use, this problem only started when I updated from snow loepard to lion.
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Hi Limnos
I have tried that but it makes no difference at all, the only way I have found to get continues sound is to open and set a keynote presentation onto play and dimmed the screen using the function key and adjusting it manually so as not to kicker my screen, there must be an easier way than this.
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