Why had iTunes become completely unresponsive?

Over the past few months itunes has become increasingly unresponsive, I now hate the those spinning colours. I have a large movie and music library stored on an external hard drive (WD 1.5 TB) and I have used just over half its capacity and it connects to a desktop Mac 5 (bought in 2009 I think?). Every action is met with the spinning colours, scrolling a library to pick movies to download to my iphone 4s can take 30 minutes and syncing a movie to the phone takes over an hour. The final straw has been IOS7 which I installed yesterday. Every item I try to sync to the phone fails. I don't use the cloud as I haven't got my head round why it works for me (I get how it works in general terms)
I'm sure there's an easy fix or theres a capacity issue but right now I'm soo out of love with all Apple products I feel like scrapping the lots and starting again with a PC and Android.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to speed things up, this feels like I have a ZX Spectrum and I'm back in the 80's
Thanks

Refer to this article:
iTunes for Windows XP: Troubleshooting unexpected quits, freezes, or launch issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1421

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