Edited September 30, 201312 yr by scavers

I have a 3rd gen, the battery is totally dead,

Are you using the latest version of iTunes?

The driver cd aint much use anymore, its so old.

Also is your ipod connected at the time?

I have th elatest vrsion

My iPod isn't connected - i tunes doesn't start no matter what

Try disabling the ipodservice.exe from within the task manager before running itunes. this may or may not help you.

btw which version of itunes are you running?

4.9

EDIT: Disabling the services doesn't help either

Edited July 13, 200521 yr by scavers

just use the winam^p plugin it worked without any servicesm without spk2 or any windows xp s***.

I just had this problem recently, and did pretty much the same stuff as you: uninstalled and reinstalled (successfully) a bunch of times, and even went so far as to un&reinstall Quicktime itself.

But what ended up fixing it for me was deleting the My Documents\My Music\iTunes folder, where iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library.itl are stored. I played around a bit, and determined that those files were what was causing iTunes to crash on startup every time. Guess they get corrupted once in a while.

Hope that works for ya.