iTunes won't recognize iPhone
I've scoured the internet the past few days looking for a solution to my problem. I just recently installed Vista Ultimate. I've been using iTunes for the past month or so on Ultimate and just the other day decided to sync my iPhone to my library. When I connect the iPhone, Vista picks it up automatically but iTunes will not. I have uninstalled EVERY Apple program (Mobile Device Support, Software Updater, Bonjour, iTunes, & Quicktime) and then re-installed it directly from Apple's website at least a dozen times.
On this forum someone recommended back in October to someone else that they try to uninstall and then re-install iTunes with antivirus software off. I had not thought of that, so I tried that a few minutes ago almost sure that this was the solution.
I'm still not getting anything at all. After re-installing iTunes with the antivirus and firewall off, again, Vista installs the iPhone and gives me a few options to import pictures from the iPhone, but iTunes will still not recognize the iPhone.
I also read about the USBAAPL.SYS driver not installing properly possibility. I checked in both windows/system32/drivers and windows/system32/inf and did not see this file. However, I did the find the USBAAPL.SYS file in my XP windows folder as I have a dual boot setup. I copied the file from XP and pasted it into Vista windows driver and INF folder. STILL NOTHING!
I also tried installing this driver directly from windows but I couldn't as Vista was looking for an INF file.
I am totally at a loss. Someone please HELP 😟
ECS, Windows Vista, Vista Ultimate, P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM