iTunes slows down PC too much

rockinaway · 06-24-2007, 09:19 AM

I am using Windows XP SP2.

When I load up iTunes, it first stalls my computer and all the programs running to load up. Then while it is running it makes my computer way too slow to use. I have to leav it to settle down for a while, and still it is pretty slow.

What could be wrong?

**TheMatt** · 06-24-2007, 02:34 PM

Hi,

I know iTunes tends to be a large program, but it shouldn't cause that many problems. What are your computers specs? If it is an older computer, then it may be too slow to run iTunes smoothly.

rockinaway · 06-25-2007, 09:13 AM

Not old at all, Windows XP Media Centre Edition. Pentium 4, 512MB RAM.

**1 g0t 0wn3d** · 06-25-2007, 10:45 AM

How much music do you have mine stalls for~1 sec but i have 9.5 gb of music.

rockinaway · 06-25-2007, 12:03 PM

Not even 1 gb, around 350 MB..

DoubleD1 · 12-11-2009, 12:54 PM

I have laptop Intel Centrino I believe, and I have 65GB of music on it's ~80GB drive, my itunes is slow but so is my music folder when I open it.

I found for the windows folder and itunes that by reducing the number of columns showing data it reduced the lag between operations.

If anyone knows a better solution I'd like to hear it.