Help activating Iphone

Please help an exhausted iphone newbie! Just got my phone for xmas and tried today to activate it. Itunes does not recognize the phone and my computer shows no sign of even knowing it exists. I tried everything in the troubleshooting section of the manual except unplugging all other USB devices because getting to the back of my computer is not an option at this moment! The only possible problem I can see is that, although I have the apple mobile device support installed, I do not see any evidence of the driver for iphone listed in the universal serial bus controllers in the device manager. The phone shows a picture of the USB cable and an arrow pointing toward an itunes icon. any ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks!

Just updated it prior to connecting the phone.

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