Are you running it in the taskbar (the mini-player that appears near the systray)? iTunes tends to "use" a lot of resources when it's in minimode it's really quite annoying, my computer is fairly old but I've reconstituted it by a dusting inside and a decent defrag
back on topic: I'm monitoring my own itunes now, seems alright for me.
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it's really quite annoying, my computer is fairly old but I've reconstituted it by a dusting inside and a decent defrag
