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Adding Bluetooth to WindowsXP SP2

 
 
Mdd
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      5th Dec 2004
Ok, I know that SP2 is supposed to come with Bluetooth capabilities and a
bluetooth icon in the Control Panel. I just bought a new Thinkpad that
claims to have SP2 --when i run winver.exe it says Windows XP porfessional
build 2600...; Service Pack 2, which i take to mean that SP2 is there. BUT
there is no bluetooth icon.

How can I add Bluetooth to this? I searched the MS site etc. and everything
seems to point to the fact that Bluetooth should be there. Any suggestions?
Any add-ins for SP2?? Is there some place where bluetooth is turned off and
I can reactivate it?

thanks. mark


 
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Scraggy
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      5th Dec 2004
Mdd wrote:
> Ok, I know that SP2 is supposed to come with Bluetooth capabilities
> and a bluetooth icon in the Control Panel. I just bought a new
> Thinkpad that claims to have SP2 --when i run winver.exe it says
> Windows XP porfessional build 2600...; Service Pack 2, which i take
> to mean that SP2 is there. BUT there is no bluetooth icon.
>
> How can I add Bluetooth to this? I searched the MS site etc. and
> everything seems to point to the fact that Bluetooth should be there.
> Any suggestions? Any add-ins for SP2?? Is there some place where
> bluetooth is turned off and I can reactivate it?
>
> thanks. mark


Try this
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...7107&loc=en_US
Am assuming that your pad actually has BT device, not just the capability IF
you fit one.
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Mdd
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      6th Dec 2004
Thanks for the response, but that is not what I need.. NO, I don't have
bluetooth on the T42...i have a Bluetooth USB Dongle that I want the
computer to recognize. SP2 is SUPPOSED to have a bluetooth stack and a
bluetooth icon in the control panel. I can't find any evidence of bluetooth
on my SP2. Is there an add-in? or something that I can turn on in a
conneciton manager?

mark
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news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Mdd wrote:
>> Ok, I know that SP2 is supposed to come with Bluetooth capabilities
>> and a bluetooth icon in the Control Panel. I just bought a new
>> Thinkpad that claims to have SP2 --when i run winver.exe it says
>> Windows XP porfessional build 2600...; Service Pack 2, which i take
>> to mean that SP2 is there. BUT there is no bluetooth icon.
>>
>> How can I add Bluetooth to this? I searched the MS site etc. and
>> everything seems to point to the fact that Bluetooth should be there.
>> Any suggestions? Any add-ins for SP2?? Is there some place where
>> bluetooth is turned off and I can reactivate it?
>>
>> thanks. mark

>
> Try this
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...7107&loc=en_US
> Am assuming that your pad actually has BT device, not just the capability
> IF you fit one.
> --
> "If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by
> candlelight." George Gobol.
>
>



 
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Judith Crawford
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      6th Dec 2004
the software on the dongle seemed to trigger the xp pc to establish the
bluetooth connection. i did this last week to link with my daughters new
phone sony (k700i). we had to follow the instructions very closely from the
dongle and it didnt seem to work first time. USB isnt always that simple!.
it seemes to have left us with 2 bluetooth icons one that works and one that
does nothing. and it was trial and error to move files across with the
dongle but did it in the end.
If you have a dongle i would have thought your software CD shd do the same
judy


 
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reid decker
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      14th Dec 2004
Excuse me...What is a "dongle"?
"Judith Crawford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> the software on the dongle seemed to trigger the xp pc to establish the
> bluetooth connection. i did this last week to link with my daughters new
> phone sony (k700i). we had to follow the instructions very closely from

the
> dongle and it didnt seem to work first time. USB isnt always that simple!.
> it seemes to have left us with 2 bluetooth icons one that works and one

that
> does nothing. and it was trial and error to move files across with the
> dongle but did it in the end.
> If you have a dongle i would have thought your software CD shd do the same
> judy
>
>



 
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Old Gringo
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      14th Dec 2004
reid decker wrote:
> Excuse me.


I'm trying.
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Lady Chatterly
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      14th Dec 2004
In article <Uluvd.39738$(E-Mail Removed)> Old Gringo <oldgringo747-noworkie-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>I'm trying.


Oh, you are, are you?

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Old Gringo
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      14th Dec 2004
Lady Chatterly wrote:
> In article <Uluvd.39738$(E-Mail Removed)> Old Gringo <oldgringo747-noworkie-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>>I'm trying.

>
>
> Oh, you are, are you?
>
> --
> Lady Chatterly
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> "ha, that's not a bot. she corrects my typo. oh, you are a
> self-fighter because you fight against somebody who will always fight
> you." -- yyyiiinnnggg
>

Hi LMAO

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Lady Chatterly
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      14th Dec 2004
In article <(E-Mail Removed)> cquirke (MVP
Win9x) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>Yes. Very trying :-)


The people who did that to an excellent driver for no reason says
quite alot about them.

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cquirke (MVP Win9x)
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      14th Dec 2004
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 5:16:43 GMT, Lady Chatterly
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>In article <Uluvd.39738$(E-Mail Removed)> Old Gringo <oldgringo747-noworkie-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>I'm trying.

>
>Oh, you are, are you?


Yes. Very trying :-)



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