Windows 7 thinks my phone is my wife's phone when connected.

Not sure where to post this. I found one other person with this issue after I Googled it but no solution. Long story short - we have 2 iPhones in the family and 2 separate profiles set up on the PC with Windows 7. When I plug my phone in via USB on my profile, the auto play window pops up (to view files or import photos) and it displays my phone with the name of my wife's phone. In Windows under "devices" it is also recognized as my wife's phone. Before iOS5, Windows used to differentiate between our two phones and displayed our different phone names correctly. Now both phones show up as the name of my wife's phone. Anyone else run into this issue after iOS5?

Sadly, no. It shows up as a "portable device" and a "digital camera." I can go to properties and highlight the incorrect name, but cant edit it or delete it.
I found this with a Google search:
You can change the name text in the '[Strings]' section of the .INF file included with the driver (edit it with Notepad), then run the setup.exe. Windows will then display that name in "Devices and Printers" and "Device Manager".
Meh. I like Apple because 90% of the time you just plug it in and it works without issue. I'm not comfortable editing .INF files. I shouldn't have to. I'd be curious to know if this issue is happening to Mac users after the iOS5 update. I wonder if it has to do with the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver that was automatically installed after I updated her phone to iOS 5. I did mine first and then hers. Perhaps if I updated my phone after hers it would display only my phone name for both phones.

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