Playbook showing as unknown device in desktop manager

Hi
Just bought a Playbook and wanted to transfer some files across to it. Unfortunately I have come up against a fairly major problem with this. First thing I did was connect it to my PC and start up Desktop Manager, unfortunately the Playbook comes up as 'Unknown Device'. Tried checking all settings including everuything recommended in article KB27464 with no success. The Playbook shows as network device in Device Manager in both the PC's I've tried (one runing Win7 Starter and the other Home Premium) and as far as I can see all settings correct but no joy.
I then tried using the network share option as suggested on the support site. Typed in the relevant IP address (file:/192.168.1.5) in the run dialogue after truning WiFi sharing on with no luck. All I get is Windows can't find the relevant folder! Then tried the same technique but using the USB IP address but still no luck!
Can anyone help me as after many years of enjoying various blackberry devices this tablet is wearing my patience very thin.
Carl
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Hi
Thanks for the reply, I was going to return the tablet this morning but thought I'd give it another go. Anyway after turning off both WiFi and Bluetooth as well as disabling sharing I plugged the Playbook in and it was detected! Anyway now managed to get it synched, updated and bridged to my 9900 so everything's looking great.
Thanks again for you advice, hopefully I can help someone else in the future as I get to know more about the tablet
Regards
Carl

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