I'm having a similar problem. I installed a bluetooth dongl (Kensington
Bluetooth USB Adapter 2.0) and the device manager shows it is working
properly, but I can't access the bluetooth settings because I don't have an
option to select "Bluetooth Devices" from the "Control Panel / Hardware and
Sounds" as directed by the Windows Help and Support Screen.
I may have the wrong driver for the USB bluetooth adapter, but the
application I downloaded from the Kensington website won't run on my Vista
laptop.
My theory is that the Bluetooth Devices window in Vista will only activate
when there is a bluetooth device present. Since my device may have the
incorrect driver, Vista isn't recognizing it (even though the device manager
says its OK). Can anyone confirm or deny this?
This is extremely frustrating!
"Mark Haas" wrote:
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> I have a new Dell with factory installed Vista Ultimate edition. I'm trying
> to connect bluetooth keyboard and mouse with some difficuly. Vista Help
> points me to Control Panel/Hardware/Bluetooth Configuration but Bluetooth
> Config is not there and I can't find it anywhere else in Control Panel. I
> checked my wife's Vista build and the icon and app is there.
>
> Dell's help desk first said I need a Bluetooth card (not!) then said that
> the Hardware mngr function would not appear until I connected a Bluetooth
> device which I also disagree with. Does anyone have any experience with
> this?
>
> Thank you