Bluetooth Issue

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stonefish55

I know a few others have experienced this problme - but just in case someone
now has an answer. I have a desktop whicvh has run a bluetooth k/b and mouse
which gave me so much trouble that I decided to ditch them and do a clean
install of Windows XP SP 2. After the reformat and reinstall, I now no longer
have a "bluetooth places" in the Ctrl Panel, nor a bluetooth icon in the
shortvut area. I have installed a bluetooth dongle (which used to work) but
nothing will connect to it. I can see bth.inf in the windows folder but just
am at my wits end as to how I can get this to work. If anyone has any ideas,
I'd be really happy to hear from them. Cheers.
 
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Elmo

stonefish55 said:
I know a few others have experienced this problem - but just in case someone
now has an answer: I have a desktop which has run a bluetooth k/b and mouse
which gave me so much trouble that I decided to ditch them and do a clean
install of Windows XP SP 2. After the reformat and reinstall, I now no longer
have a "bluetooth places" in the Ctrl Panel, nor a bluetooth icon in the
shortcut area. I have installed a bluetooth dongle (which used to work) but
nothing will connect to it. I can see bth.inf in the Windows folder but just
am at my wits end as to how I can get this to work. If anyone has any ideas,
I'd be really happy to hear from them. Cheers.

You probably need drivers from the OEM. Try their site if you don't
have an install disk for the hardware. Also ask in a hardware newsgroup
for more suggestions.
 
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Big Al

Elmo said:
You probably need drivers from the OEM. Try their site if you don't
have an install disk for the hardware. Also ask in a hardware newsgroup
for more suggestions.
If you say "dongle" and you mean the bluetooth receiver/transmitter then
that unit should have come with a CD.
My laptop has the bluetooth built in, and the OEM (as stated above)
shipped the software installed. All I had to do was buy the mouse and
make it detect.
 
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stonefish55

Thanks folks - but the dongle did come with a disk and advised that it had
been installed, but no banana! Still no bluetooth icon and still no bluetooth
places - it's as though it didn't install after the reformat. Can see the
bth.inf file, which would indicate that the bluetooth files have been copied
during setup, but I thought you could right click and choose to install inf
files, but it seems that isn't the case. Got me stumped - and of course,
Microsoft don't provide free support for the issue which is just fantastic.
 

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