Where is My Bluetooth Places?

[Atull]

I have just bought the Microsoft wirless desktop for
bluetooth, with the bluetooth transceiver. Do you know
why there is no 'My BLuetooth Places' icon appearing on
the Windows XP Home desktop after theis keyboard / mouse
is connected?

I have to resort to using the Wireless Conncetions icon
on the Control Panel, which doesn't enable services such
as File Transfer with other bluetooth PCs.

Do I need to download additional bluetooth software to
enable this faeture? I already have SP 1 installed on my
PC, so I am very confused, as there is a lack of good
information on Microsoft's web site on this.

Please help.

Thanks,
Atull

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

Greetings Atull,

I don't know if you know this already but when Service Pack 2 (SP2) for
Windows XP get released, it will have built-in support for Bluetooth.
Service Pack 2 isn't released yet.

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Eric Cross, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I don't know if you know this already but when Service Pack 2 (SP2) for
Windows XP get released, it will have built-in support for Bluetooth.
Service Pack 2 isn't released yet.

There's a technical preview version (Release Candidate 2) of Service
Pack 2 available now:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx
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[XPUSER]

There's a technical preview version (Release Candidate 2) of Service
Pack 2 available now:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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That link appears to be for Release Candidate 1
not Release Candidate 2 - unless I am missing something
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[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

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That link appears to be for Release Candidate 1
not Release Candidate 2 - unless I am missing something
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You're right. RC2 hasn't been released yet. Thanks for correcting my
mistake.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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