Why doesn't iTunes launch under Windows 10 Creator?
Today I updated my Windows 10 Home installation on a 64-bit laptop to "Creator", version 1703. After the update (and a couple of reboots just for luck), I tried launching my previously-installed iTunes. The little spinner turned for four seconds, and then ... nothing further. The Task Manager showed an 9.0MB quiescent iTunes process that wasn't there before the launch attempt.
So I downloaded and installed the latest iTunes for x64 Windows, v 12.6 (and rebooted for luck), but nothing changed.
I had read that an interaction with the Bluetooth icon tray app BTTray.exe might cause similar behavior under Windows 10 v.1703, so I set the registry variable \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BTConfig\General\BtTrayInStartup to 0, rebooted, and checked that indeed bttray.exe wasn't running, but it didn't solve my iTunes problem.
I have also read that launching iTunes as Administrator works under Windows 10 v.1703, but that wouldn't help me since the bazillions of files (music, photos, backups, ...) that iTunes needs to access are located on SMB shares that Administrator can't see.
iTunes for Windows is still an important part of why many people buy iPhones and iPads. Does Apple see an iTunes incompatibility with the latest version of Windows as a problem? Is there a fix in the works? Does anyone know a reliable work-around?