Iphone 4 is not recognized by Windows Vista

everyting was working great! iTunes recognoized the phone, synching was fine then...
the iphone is not recognized by Vista, no drivers are present in Device manager and the iphone does not even USB charge when plugged in to the PC.
I've reistalled iTunes but the drivers still do not show up.
I've tried to find the drivers on the Apple site but cannot find them.
Help!

I have had the same problem two times with two different iphones (3gs and 4). After spending more than 1 hour on the phone with apple support, the only thing that worked was using windows xp on another computer to update ios. The funny thing is that when updating to 4.1 I again used Vista and it worked. I suspect it is a firewall problem but don't know how to solve. If you update using xp you can go back and return all your apps, photos, etc from Vista, just make sure you backup before using xp.

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