Iphone 4s is not showing up in itunes on PC and not recognized by computer

I did all of the suggestions for others with this issue and finally reinstalled itunes. It's still not working. I also noticed that when I plug my iphone into my computer I'm asked if I want my iphone to trust the computer- it doesn't recognize my phone even though I've been plugging it into this computer for months. Even after I say "trust", I'm asked the next time I plug in the iphone. Can anyone help???

jennjc wrote:
Thanks for responding. I did go thru all of the trouble shooting suggestions and none of them worked. The final suggestion was to uninstall iTunes and then check to make sure no support programs remained. I searched my c drive and none of them could be found. Then I reinstalled iTunes. Is this right?
I want very hard here to avoid splitting hairs with you but with the way you worded your post I feel it best that I attempt to sumarize what must be done AFTER uninstalling the itunes program. In the articles that I listed for you it talks about unstinalling all other associated programs as a part of itunes. Those programs MUST be uninstalled and then as part of downloading a new copy of itunes then installed along with the new copy of itunes. If you are saying that you did uninstall iTunes, and then after that uninstalled all other associated programs then yes you are now ready to download and install a new copy of itunes.
Please note that this should be done as a new copy of itunes and NOT the same copy that had originally been downloaded that resulted in the issues.
Good luck Friend.

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