I normally use my home Windows XP computer, and I encounter no problems with my iPod Nano.
When at a friend's house, he had Vista (God forbid) and we installed iTunes. My iPod has a broken screen, because it used to belong to my brother, and right before he was going to give it to me, he accidentally sat on the screen. It still plays songs, but I can't see what I'm choosing, so I just put it on shuffle, and when I plug it into my home computer, it registers a plugged in iPod.
For leisure of choosing songs, and so I don't have to be the only one enjoying my music, I enjoy using iTunes with my iPod. I can do this at home, and, until recently, at my friend's house.
The first time we installed iTunes, my iPod worked perfectly fine. I came over to his house a while later, plugged my iPod into his Vista computer, and brought up iTunes. Nothing registered there. I checked My Computer, and it didn't say anything was there. I tried all of his four USB ports, and none of them worked.
As I was plugging it into each of the ports, the screen would light up, signifying that it knew it was being plugged into something. I put a headphone on and plugged it in. Usually, your music is interrupted and stopped when your iPod connects to a computer, but my music didn't stop at all.
I've checked my iTunes Preferences, and it says that it's allowing. I can't see what angle to come at this from. The only thing I haven't tried that I've thought of yet is to plug it into a different computer now that it's having these problems with his Vista. Maybe it won't work on any Windows anymore. I would like some suggestions as to what to try to get it to actually register in my computer, which would probably get it to register in iTunes.
The USB ports are working. All four of them. The iPod even knows it's being plugged in. I don't think the iPod actually connects to the computer.
When at a friend's house, he had Vista (God forbid) and we installed iTunes. My iPod has a broken screen, because it used to belong to my brother, and right before he was going to give it to me, he accidentally sat on the screen. It still plays songs, but I can't see what I'm choosing, so I just put it on shuffle, and when I plug it into my home computer, it registers a plugged in iPod.
For leisure of choosing songs, and so I don't have to be the only one enjoying my music, I enjoy using iTunes with my iPod. I can do this at home, and, until recently, at my friend's house.
The first time we installed iTunes, my iPod worked perfectly fine. I came over to his house a while later, plugged my iPod into his Vista computer, and brought up iTunes. Nothing registered there. I checked My Computer, and it didn't say anything was there. I tried all of his four USB ports, and none of them worked.
As I was plugging it into each of the ports, the screen would light up, signifying that it knew it was being plugged into something. I put a headphone on and plugged it in. Usually, your music is interrupted and stopped when your iPod connects to a computer, but my music didn't stop at all.
I've checked my iTunes Preferences, and it says that it's allowing. I can't see what angle to come at this from. The only thing I haven't tried that I've thought of yet is to plug it into a different computer now that it's having these problems with his Vista. Maybe it won't work on any Windows anymore. I would like some suggestions as to what to try to get it to actually register in my computer, which would probably get it to register in iTunes.
The USB ports are working. All four of them. The iPod even knows it's being plugged in. I don't think the iPod actually connects to the computer.