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Every time i start my pc up and try to open iTunes, MSN, or FireFox or any other program i double click the shortcut and the little loading thing comes up then goes away and i have to restore my pc 2-6 times before anything even works this is getting really really stressful becuase usually it takes 40-50 mins to get anything working??? anybody have any ideas?? Thanks in Advance

--RaY--

Blah.. Since you didn't give any information about your computer, this could be anything..
Some examples:

Have you run diagnostics to see if your hard drive is not causing the problems?  How old is your system? Over 2 or 3 years a lot of hard drives degrade. It might be a hardware problem.

See 'System Idle Process' on Task Manager. If you are not running any programs it should hover around 97-99%. If it fluctuates much more than this you should install and update then run Spybot and Ad-aware and spywareblaster (or some programs similar to these).

um I'm Actually think that it could be because of iTunes because i just had a look on the forums over at apple and lots of people are having the same problem (the double click and nothing coming up) but its happening to everything for me which is really strange.

Thanks for replying Hexel um yeah its about 2-3 years old and my system idle process is always around high ninteys i've run spybot, norton, ad-aware.

I dont think its an hardware problem..

Do you have any norton product?

It may seem stupid but i never had good experience with norton products ( firewall and antivirus ) they would stop my system from loading correctly and i had to restart just like you..
In this new computer, i had almost the same problem with the antivirus but it instaed of stopping would take ages to load.

Or it could be a virus, check what are the things that startup with your computer.

this problem happened with me. its only an iTunes problem. what version are you using?

um i had 4.9 then i went to 5 then that just came up with lots of errors so then i got 6 and the quicktime standalone player.

um i did have norton but my things run out.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
click that link, and follow what it says underneath the error messages. post the outcome

I did the steps but I don't really want to restart my pc 'cos I just got it working and i dont want to have to go through about 5 system restores again. when i start my pc up after school tomorrow i'll post the outcome. Thanks for the help Reaper.

--RaY--

itunes 6 is out just to let u know.

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Originally posted by ray18
yeah its about 2-3 years old and my system idle process is always around high.

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Your "system Idle process" is NOT a process. Idling means doing nothing. It should always be around high in a healthy system, unless you are running a resource and CPU intensive program.