Itunes doesnt recognise Ipod, Ipod updater doesnt recognise Ipod

Question

As said, Im new and just bought the ipod 30gb and I tried whatever is said in http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93716 and still doesnt work.
Ipod shows up in the Windows explorer and in the WIndows Task Manager, but not in Itunes nor Ipod updater as connected.
I tried to download older versions of Ipod updater and itunes, because I read it was working for some people, but cannot download them in any place. And at last, I wonder if there is any problem using USB 1.1 I dunno what else I can do, Im ****** off :/

Answer 1

Ok, I had the same problem for months but I have just fixed it!! Here is the problem I had and my solution:
Problem:
1. Ipodservice was not loading when windows xp boots up
2. In Events Viewer, System, there was he error "DCOM got error "193 is not a valid Win32 application. " attempting to start the service iPodService with arguments "-Service" in order to run the server:"
3. As a result, itunes can't see the ipod and I was unable to update it for many months
FIX:
1. The problem for me was that windows cannot find ipodservice.exe because there is a space in the path that it resides in: C:\Program Files\iPod\bin
2. This is a problem that Microsoft has documented (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812486/)
3. Open up Regedit.exe
4. Goto "HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service\IpodService"
5. Double-click on ImagePath on the right
6. Add double quotations around the ipodservice path(ie. "C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe")
7. Close regedit
8. Goto Start-Administrative Tools-Services
9. Scroll to Ipodservice and double-click
10. Set startup type to "automatic" if not already
11. Click on "Start" to start the service
12. Now run itunes; you should be able to connect now to your ipod!
Rainer_
  Windows XP