I have a MS Bluetooth mouse and it works just fine with Vista and with the
MS Bluetooth USB dongle. First make sure that you push the little button on
the dongle for about 15 seconds to get it to register with the OS. Then
from the Bluetooth icon in the control panel make sure you push the little
button on the bottom of the mouse or keyboard when you are telling it you
want to add a device.
"kanderstag" <kanderstag@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm in the same boat. I have the MS Elite bluetooth combo and am using
> Vista
> Ultimate 64bit. Vista seems to see the bluetooth transceiver, I get the
> bluetooth icon in the systray, but I cannot open its settings. Trying to
> add
> a new device is beyond frustrating as neither keyboard nor mouse are
> recognized. Both intellipoint drivers are installed, but even then,
> clicking
> on their desktop icons for adding a mouse or keyboard do nothing but give
> directions and the little "Add Bluetooth Devices" link within does not
> work.
>
> It's as if Vista doesn't recognize the bt dongle. I cannot find it in
> Control Panel classic view, and yet if I go to Device Manager it is there,
> "working properly." At wit's end with this circus, I tried the install on
> XP
> and it went without a hitch. Both keyboard and mouse were recognized.
>
> I tried again on Vista and back to the ever-frustrating puzzle. The icing
> on the cake is the bt icon disappearing from the systray after five to ten
> minutes. Nothing is hidden, it just decides to take a little siesta... or
> play hide and seek.
>
> "lordstanleyiscominghome@xxxxxx" wrote:
> Quote:
>> I have the exact same issue... my bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse is working
>> but in the control panel no Bluetooth hardware exists and there is no
>> bluetooth icon in the systray like XP.
>>
>> If I run the bluetooth application from the start menu (bttray.exe) it
>> does absolutely nothing so i'm not able to sync my bluetooth phone or
>> have it discover any other devices.
>>
>>