iTunes could not connect to the iPhone because an invalid response was received from the device

I encountered this issue on my home PC after getting my new iPhone 7. I had previously sync'd the phone with my laptop, but upon connecting it to my PC, I got the error message;

"iTunes could not connect to the iPhone because an invalid response was received from the device"

I was pretty confident the phone wasn't the issue as it had successfully sync'd with another computer - I tried the following steps first which did not fix the issue;

• Different USB/lightning cable
• Different USB port
• Rebooted computer
• Rebooted iPhone
• Ensured iPhone wasn't locked when connecting
• Removed iPhone device from device manager

What ended up fixing the issue in the end was uninstalling and re-installing iTunes on the computer.