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    Itunes/Gateway/64bit windows

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by metzy85, May 30, 2010.

  1. metzy85

    metzy85 Newbie

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    Hello I come to you highly frustrated and extremely irritated. I am trying to fix my girlfriends gateway t series laptop. Little background first though. I have run into this issue a couple times before. In both cases it was windows 7 home premium and they were 64 bit. Here is what happens
    1. Computer Will not shutdown. Either stops at logging off or shutting down
    2. Computer seems unstable, things such as system restore, virus programs and just general usage is very unstable
    3. Itunes will not open or update

    The first computer I got this fixed on was a hp with a Intel dual core processor. I used revo uninstaller to completely wipe the system clean of Itunes. I then reinstalled it and everything seemed ok for a time. About a week later got a hold of the laptop and issues had seemed to begin to reoccur. If I removed iTunes everything gets fixed system is stable it shuts down and everything seems good. I need help really bad on this one. Itunes is the only thing I can see that causes the problem. Nothing I have done has seemed to stop it. Please help and thank you
     
  2. dmgab

    dmgab Notebook Guru

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    Well you can use the dark side help here..i remember there is a command you can use to restore the majority of important files in windows ive used it and it works..but the most effective is to reinstall the whole operating system make a backup partition not for doing backups but instead to reinstall a whole windows there, and if that gets screwed up again you can reinstall there. That's the less annoying way in my opinion. In case you don't have the actual install dvd, you can use the "untouched" version, extracting the key of yours first (in case you dont know it) of course for later use in the "untouched" version.
     
  3. Syngensmyth

    Syngensmyth In All Seriousness

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    I don't know how to fix iTunes but I do know how to dump iTunes.
    Floola or CopyTrans Manager. I like CopyTrans a little better.