Itunes no longer recognizes iphone

Hi everyone,
I'm having a big problem synching my iphone 5 with iTunes 11.1.4.62 on my Windows 8.1 laptop. It started two days ago when I tried to add a couple albums to my phone (via cable) and noticed that it was synching about 5 times slower than usual. I figured that it must be synching over wifi instead of the cable and noticed that under the "summary" tab, "sync this iphone over wifi" box was checked. I unchecked that box to switch back to the cable, figuring that I must have checked it by accident. A second after unchecking that box, the entire iphone interface disappeared including the "iPhone" button in the top right corner. From that point, iTtunes on my laptop won't recognize my phone any more, period. I rebooted both devices multiple times, re-installed itunes, deleted and installed itunes all over, etc.  At the Genius bar they told me that my phone works perfectly and it's a software issue. Other than this, iTunes works and plays music fine. It's super inconvenient though, and at this point I'm thinking of doing a full system restore to wipe out all traces and re-install itunes again. Thought I'll ask if I should try anything else first. Any ideas?

Welp, I fixed it without any drastic measures!
here's what to do:
1. Open the device manager (found on the control panel)
2. Clisk on "portable devices" (about 2/3 down the list)
3. Right-click "Apple iPhone" and click "update driver software"
4. When prompted, browse for the driver folder, which should be found under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers
5. Restart itunes
Thanks to this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24605613#24605613

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