iPhone crashing computer work-around
So I got an iPhone for my birthday yesterday and was all excited this morning to get it up and running with apps, my music/podcasts etc and of course to do that you have to connect it up to your PC. So I plug it in to the USB port via the supplied lead and my computer crashes. 'Well it must be a fluke' I think 'Apple products are known for their ability to "just work" right? That couldn't just be marketing bullshit' I continue to think. So I reboot and plug it in again. Same thing. And this isn't just any crash either, this is a 'screen goes black, all keys cease to work, forcing a hard reset' kind of crash. So after (literally) three hours of tinkering and searching Google I have come up with a work-around. The problem was caused by the iPhone/iTunes software having a software clash with my HP Photo transfer software for transferring pictures off my digital camera (which BTW has never happened before with previous iPods or ANY OTHER SOFTWARE I...