Setting up on Windows 7

[jseery]

I had the same problem and after watch this youtube video I was able to get it to recognize my Arduino. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PUbfliMZZk

[Oberling]

My original issue is that I could not install the driver. I eventually swiched to my older PC and managed to install the driver, or at least I think I did. It took me several tries, and it stopped telling me that it could not find the port COM1.

[vmars316]

Greetings,
I had the same win7x64 problem
and found a solution here:
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,91690.0.html
hth...vmars316