Iphone 4 won't show up in Itunes, windows, or the device manager

I've had this problem for about a month where one day my Iphone stopped syncing to Itunes. When I plug my Iphone in the phone will connect and start to charge, but it won't give me the normal options when I connect my phone showing that Windows recognizes it or show up in the computer tab. When I check Itunes doesn't show it as connected either. I've uninstalled and reinstalled  itunes multiple times with no effect and I've read up on some fixes that require the device to show up in the Devices and Printers but it doesn't show up there either. Can anyone please help me with this? I'm running Windows Vista.

For future reference, I was able to get my iPhone to show up in my iTunes by clicking on the apple icon-->about this mac--> then software update. Seem to have done the trick!

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