Ever since upgrading to iTunes 10.5 last week, I've seen significant performance issues. It takes at least 2-3 minutes to load and when I try to click on a song after it's been open for a few minutes, it almost freezes up. Why is 10.5 so slow for Windows XP??? I want to rollback to the previous version I had (10.2.1), but I'm not sure it will support an iPod touch 4G with ios5 that I want to buy.
Windows XP
Close your iTunes,
Go to command Prompt -
(Win 7/Vista) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES, right mouse click "Command Prompt", choose "Run as Administrator".
(Win XP SP2 & above) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/Command Prompt
In the "Command Prompt" screen, type in
netsh winsock reset
Hit "ENTER" key
Restart your computer.
If you do get a prompt after restart windows to remap LSP, just click NO.
Now launch your iTunes and see if it is working now.
If you are still having these type of problems after trying the winsock reset, refer to this article to identify which software in your system is inserting LSP:
iTunes 10.5 for Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
Didn't help. Now what?
Or Apple could just update it to fix the issue! We shouldn't have to do anything ourselves!
Why does iTunes 10.5 take so long to load?
