itunes will not open --windows 7 64bit

was having same issue, reinstalling Quitime worked. I wish I found this one first

Please I'd like an answer to this issue too, I have tried EVERYTHING mentioned in forums and posts.Spent many hours and late nights trying....I only have the one computer at the moment......Android here i come ;-(

Me too. As soon as I uninstalled Quicktime, I was able to launch iTunes. (No need to reboot or reinstall QuickTime.)

Thanks for taking the time to recommend something. I have though, tried everything possible. Everything I have read on threads, and in forums. So frustrating, and disappointing. Causes a lot if problems, as I have to have an "extra" computer just for updating my iPhone... ;-(

Bob

Ok, I reluctantly tried it AGAIN..out of desparation, and low and behold it worked..I got rid of Quicktime and viola, working.....I'm kinda cautious and afraid, why after sooo many attempts did it work this time ??????

I'm happy so far

I have had this problem with Windows 7 and iTunes updates for some time. Each time it takes hours to solve but with the over the air upgrade to IOS6 on my iPhone and iPad, I was determined to solve and remember what I did, So here it is:

http://www.care4pcs.co.uk/2012/09/pear-shaped-apple-ios-6-for-iphone-ipad.html

I hope this helps you and any other users.

Yeah - I just had my iPhone and iPad syncing on 32 bit XP laptop. It was the only thing that I used that machine for. But I got fed up with not using my new Windows 7 64 bit desktop. Once the 5 or so msi's were separated out of iTunes64Setup.exe, installing AMDS first seemed the logical thing to do. And it worked. It's just important to get all Apple stuff of the 64 bit machine, including the registry. Seems like you are sorted. That's the main thing.

Hi, I had the same issue and found the issue to be with Windows. I posted a response on the following thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4399326

In this thread there is a link to a Microsoft communities website which explains it all. Installing and uninstalling different Apple software had no affect on my machine which is Windows 7 64 bit.

I would just try running "sfc /scannow" as an administrator first and if that fails, go through the different boot sequences.

Since running the "sfc /scannow" its's like I have a new machine. It found errors whilst checking so this had to be the issues.

Good luck.

Dave

Quicktime is the answer. For some reason it wont update properly on a automatic update. Better grab the application from www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ this will solve the problem.

Worked for me too.... thanks.

I do not have quick time installed. now what? i cannot get this program to run!! I just installed it! What kind of program doesn't run when you click the icon after installing it?

Worked perfectly, thanks

Uninstalling Quicktime did it for me. The problem started when the auto update clocked up an error message and terminated the update.

I haven't tried reinstalling Quicktime yet - I'm not even quite sure what will not work without it!!! I'll leave it til get a problem.

Thanks to everyone - as a result of this thread, I only suffered about 4 days of problems. Now everything works fine that the updating of iPads/iPhone works automatically as it always has til now.