Problems recognizing iPhone4S through Windows 7 or iTunes

I have iTunes 11.1.4.62 running on Windows 7 Home premium. The iTunes and Windows can recognize my iPad but my iPhone 4S cannot be recognized through iTunes or Windows 7. This happened after the new iTunes upgrade.
The Apple Mobile device and the iPod services are running. I have uninstalled and installed iTunes several times and even tried the registry trick (http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3299) which some other users have used but nothing is happening. This kb article (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538) does not help either. The iPhone4S does not show up in device manager where as my iPad retina does.
I need to back up my iPhone to my computer.
Please help.
PS: I also keep getting notifications to update iTunes to the same version that I have. The installer installs iTunes and checks for new updates and lists the same update and prompts for updating iTunes. This has never happened before. The prompt contains the following notification:
This version of iTunes improves accessibility, including better support for closed captions and subtitles. This update also adds the ability to see your Wish List while viewing your iTunes library, improves support for Arabic and Hebrew, and includes additional stability improvements.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

Never mind -- I found the solution to the problem.
The usb wire is dead. I always use a dock to charge my iPhone and thus never suspected that a rarely used power cable can go bad. But when I plugged in the power cord to the adapter, the problem solved itself! As Sherlock Holmes would say, "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

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