iTunes cannot run because some of its required files are missing

un install completly your curent Itunes version with all its data for the version 12.11.4.15 .... That s exactly what I did to resolve the situation ... and it works ...

This can be fixed by changing the windows user interface to English US

Hope they fix this soon

Workaround: Change your "Preferred Language" to English (United States) and also the display language. Signout. I also rebooted.

have you tried changing the windows language setting to English (Untied States) ?

The latest version of iTunes for windows only works if widows is set to use English - United States as it's display language.

Will not on any other language including English - Canada & English - United Kingdom

Hopefully this is not intentional

This appears to be a language-related bug. See here.

Did you lost all of your library when you uninstall iTunes or the library appears normally when you uninstall and install the version 12.11.3.17?

And did you uninstall only iTunes or iTunes, Bonjour and other apps too?

I've done this, and now have an iTunes that I can use. Thank you. However, anything I've changed in my playlists in the last two years has been lost, and my library is a two year old version as well. Any idea how I can retrieve the playlists and tracks I had on iTunes last night which have now all disappeared?

Same problem.

I also tried to uninstall iTunes completely, but I only downloaded the installation file from the Apple site (iTunes64Setup.exe 12.11.3.17) because, on the Microsoft site, iTunes is now not currently available.

By starting the installation it notifies me that a newer version of iTunes is already on the PC.

I'm in total confusion.

Please help me.

Installing the old version doesn't appear to work for me. Despite an extensive uninstall activity, I get a persistent error message "A newer version of itunes is already installed". I guess there's a registry entry somewhere.... Try as i might I don't appear to be able to work around this.

I am running a windows 11 beta build and getting the same error.

Same on latest windows 10. Seems widespread

I have the same problem

Having the same issue,

older version opens but doesn't let me restore an iPad to factory defaults

Says it needs the latest version witch doesn't work

Thank you for your support!

I'm probably too stupid. I run the whole procedure 5 times and it still doesn't work!

I'm trying to install older versions, it doesn't work!