I should have know better. i held off downloading the newest version of iTunes for awhile. just downloaded last week. now, when i click the preference box .... it takes like 3 minutes for it to appear on the screen. and i keep getting an update reminder ... and when i go to update it, at the very end i get an error message and i can' update
i'm on a dell running windows 7. and i haven't had any issues with the previous versions of iTunes

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