device driver software was not successfully installed

How can I connect my iPhone to the pc as an admin, is there a setting somewhere for that? Thank you for your reply

Here's what I tried now:

- CTRL+ALT+DEL task manager and stopped all unneccessary processes, including avg anti-virus

- in iTunes under devices, clicked iPhone and on the main page, clicked restore button with backup settings

- iPhone was reset successfully and restarted after a few minutes after which I could see pop-up messages about apple mobile usb driver successfully installed as well as device driver software so I cheered and thought it was solved

- disconnected iPhone with all it's factory defaults and took a picture with it's camera, then reconnected to pc

- again the message "device driver software was not successfully installed" appeared and an exclamation mark besides the iphone entry in device manager

- again disconnected iphone and deleted that picture and the reconnected, after which the device driver message does not appear, neither does it appear in device manager

So the stupid driver message only appears if there's camera pics on the phone

I couldn't see the phone in explorer either during all tests

Tried to update iphone driver in device manager but then it says "the best driver software for your device is already installed - MTP USB Device"

So apparently the allmighty Apple iPhone does not seem to be compatible with windows 7??

But sssht!! Don't tell anyone. Just tell them to buy a mac because apple is so great!

So again I did a reinstall the following way:

- uninstalled itunes, apple mobile device support, apple application support and apple software update

- cleaned up traces and registry using ccleaner and slimcleaner

- rebooted pc

- downloaded 64bit version of itunes (iTunes64Setup.exe)

- ran the installer which strangely enough asked me to install into "Program files (x86)" which normally is for 32bit programs so I changed install directory to Program files.

- rebooted pc after install

- started itunes after which it moaned that my itunes library.itl is cannot be opened because it is made with a newer version of itunes pfffff. So I moved this library file out of the folder and itunes did startup this time with default library. Check for updates found an update so I ran it.

- rebooted

- put my itunes library.itl file back, overwriting the one it just made

- started itunes and there my good old library appeared as it was before

- connected iphone and again got "device driver software was not successfully installed" in system tray message

- no way to browse for my camera pics in explorer! syncing with itunes works fine though

after updating itunes to 10.5 and iphone to OS5 I still can't get the iphone drivers to install. Cannot get camera photo's from the iphone to my pc!

Thank you for your reply but how do you fix the windows scanner/camera driver and where do you get the correct drive that will work?

Kingofbits,

I found a way to get my iPhone's camera pics onto my windows computer. The best part is, I'm syncing wirelessly via my WiFi, so no cable required, neither do you need iTunes or drivers and crap!

Since Apple's latest update to iOS 5 there are some great changes such as a free 5GB account in the iCloud (info over the iCloud here). So what I did is in my iPhone's settings I enabled Photostream under the iCloud settings. Then I downloaded&installed a control panel for the iCloud onto my pc (link here). And in this control panel I also enabled photostream which basically syncs the pics in the cloud with a folder on your pc.

Basic principle: You take for example 100 pictures with your iPhone. As soon as your iPhone has WiFi, it will upload these pictures to the iCloud which is basically a free online storage space of 5GB that uses your default Apple ID login and password. When you enabled photostream on your iPad as well, your iPad will download these photo's as soon as it is on WiFi so you can see your pics there too. Then, when you switch on your pc, the iCloud control panel will see that there are new pics in the cloud and it will download them to the folder you specified! There is even an uploads folder into which you can drop pictures from your pc and they will appear on your iPad and iPhone as well.

Your iCloud photostream saves the last 1000 pictures you took and this for 30 days which gives you the time to save them somewhere else.

I hope this helps;-)

I recently did a complete new install of windows 7 ultimate 64bit on my hard drive and now windows installs drivers for iphone camera fine. So after connecting iphone to pc, it appears in explorer under my computer as if it were a usb stick and I can browse the folders to see the pictures and copy them to somewhere else.

Now you're probably thinking I don't want to risk a fresh install of windows unless I'm really certain this will solve my issue. What I did is I created a disk image of my main C: drive and saved it to an external usb drive. Then I created a bootable rescue disk with which I can start up the pc, select the image from the external drive and recover everything to the state it was before the image was created. I used acronis true image home 2011 for this but maybe you have something similar or maybe even windows 7 backup can do this, I'm not sure.

After backing up the present state of my pc into the image, I did a complete reinstall of my windows. Then connected iphone to test it and no more error message concerning drivers. So then I put all my software back onto the pc and my backups.