iPod touch and possibly other apple devices not recognized by itunes

Ok this was very annoying…  I knew the iPod was fine because it worked on my netbook. However my desktop computer refused to "see" it on iTunes.
I tried uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling it, with no luck…
Swapping ports, turning the iPod on and off, had no effect.
When I was plugging the iPod in the usb port I could hear a bonk sound on windows, then after a little another bonk. So I went to see what was going on in the device manager.
After opening the device manager I plugged in the iPod once again and I saw this>>>

Apple Mobile Device USB driver with a yellow triangle and exclamation mark!
The strange thing is that after the second BONK it would vanish!
After googling a bit I found the solution. I had to manually reinstall the drivers.
So I plugged it in again, saw that yellow triangle, right clicked on it before it would vanish and selected update.
For windows Vista and windows 7 32 bit you need to direct the driver update to this folder>
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers
If you have Vista 64 bit or windows7 64 bit AND you have installed the 64 bit version of iTunes then you must direct it to this folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers
after that the driver was reinstalled and the yellow triangle was gone as you can see below


After that it was working as it should!
more info can be found on step 2 of this page > http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
Hope this helps! Leave comments please!

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