Computer itself not recognizing iPhone

I've seen people with their phones being recognized on the computer but not on iTunes, but this is the other way around. iTunes is recognizing my phone just fine, but the computer is not - that is, it doesn't show up as a storage device when I open "my computer". I need to transfer a large number of photos and videos taken on my phone to my computer, and I would prefer not to send them all individually by email.
- How do I get my computer to recognize my iPhone?
- If you don't have an answer to that, is there any way to send videos in bulk in an email, instead of individually?

don't it show up under my computer under portable devices
or devices or printers
or in Device manger under portable devices?
to me it sounds like there is something wrong with your itune install
are
AppleMobileDevicehelper.exe
iTunes.exe
iTunesHelper.exe
running in your Windows Task manager
if not then there is something wrong with your itunes install
even if itunes itself works with your iphone and windows don't

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Try DFU Mode Restore. Here are the steps:
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golds04
Re: iTunes not recognizing iPhone 5
Feb 16, 2014 7:45 AM (in response to oryyx)
Had this problem this morning.
Once in the past had to erase my iphone and reload it.That was unpleasant.
This morning had the problem,too.
Plugged in my iphone directly into the Imac (not hub) then clicked shut down on the imac.
Pressed the button in the back while the iphone was still plugged in-and when rebooted iphone was visable in itunes.
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I had this exact same problem and just figured out how to fix it. I had to reload the driver on the iphone5 in order for itunes to recognize the device. Follow the steps here to see if you might need to do the same thing. Once I reinstalled the driver, everything works fine and I'm now able to sync with itunes again.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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