ITunes woes - please assist if you can

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I came to the only place I know where I can get smart *ss answers as well as Real Answers!

I have a WinXP machine, fully updated, etc. Son got an IPod, so we dl'ed the latest iTunes.

Problem: When I open My Computer, or navigate up to it from a root drive in an explorer window, the machine waits for about a minute and a half before it displays the drives. Nothing else appears to be slow; I can do Start >Run >C: and explore all day long, programs start and run fine, operations seem as zippy as ever. But when I get to My Computer, it slows down - if I minimize a My Computer window and then reopen it, it displays the same hesitancy. This occurs if the IPod is connected or not.

I hesitate to uninstall ITunes because of all the bleeping media rights controls applied to the songs on the machine.

Any ideas? (If I were a REAL programmer, I'd write a driver for the Amiga to operate the IPod...)

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Thanks all! Most of the things I tried already, but it was awesome that you wanted to assist w/o being condescending (sP?) -[Isn't that a criminal going down the stairs ?]

I think it was the "Automatically search for folders and printers" option...but as typical w/ windoze...
I turned that off, rebooted and it was still slow. Let it be snd left the machine on (someone is using it almost evey day...)

We had a power outage last night - I got up to complete my winuae 3.9 install (man, is it FAST! Can't wait to see all that I can get running on it!), turned the machine on, and everything was working fine!

Go figure!

Thanks for all the suggestions - A.org people rock!