Itunes help for someone who doesnt know anything about computers?

i want to reformat my computer, what do i have to do to save everything on in itunes (settings, playlists, purchased, etc.) and how do i get it back after the reformat? i spent alot of money in itunes and dont want to lose anything, please help. and answer like your talking to a kid, i dont know to much about computers. thanks

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I've had to do this before but I haven't been able to save playlists and settings yet. In your hard drive you should have a folder where all of your music should be, it may be a shared folder in you documents and settings. What I do is copy everything in the folder into my external hard drive so it stays safe during the change :%26gt; If you don't have an external you may be able to copy it to another folder.

Hope it helps...

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Backing up your iTunes library to CD or DVD

You can easily back up your iTunes library, playlists, and iTunes Store purchases for safekeeping. To reduce the number of discs needed for a backup, iTunes can perform incremental backups (only items added or changed since the last backup).

To create backup CDs or DVDs:

Choose File %26gt; ''Back Up to Disc'' and then select your options.

Insert a blank disc (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW)

Click Back Up.

iTunes burns the number of items that fit on one disc, and then asks you to insert subsequent discs to continue burning the remaining files.

To restore backed-up files, insert a backup disc, choose File %26gt; ''Back Up to Disc,'' and then click Restore.

Spoken programs purchased from the Audible website are not backed up.

Discs you create using the iTunes backup feature can be used only to restore; they can't be played in a CD or DVD player.