IPhone 4 + Tethering + VISTA = ?

Anyone have any experience with VISTA and tethering?
I have everything set up through my provider to allow the tethering - but on my GF laptop (loaded with VISTA) I cannot get the connection to happen.
I plugged my phone in here at work (Windows XP) and the drivers loaded fine (blue tethering on my iPhone screen), but for some reason it does not like that other computer.
Obviously something is influencing it, I just need to find out what.
Anyone help out?

Hi, thanks for the link.
Unfortunately I have already found that before I decided to post in here.
I wasnt able to find anything that helped my cause from that information.
I cannot seem to even get the blue tethering bar to appear on the phone when it is plugged in - I dont know what else could be causing the problem.
I was hoping that there were some people out there that have problems with the VISTA tethering and then were able to solve it.
Apparnetly my GF has upgraded to 4.0.2 - so I will see if that helps out at all.
Thanks again.

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