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Old 12-18-2008   #1 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium x64 - SP1
 
 

Bluetooth

Gateway P6860 FX laptop with Vista Home Premium 64 installed.

Trying to find a way to disable the Bluetooth at start up. There is no option within the Bluetooth settings and it doesn't show up under MSCONFIG.

Anyone know how to keep it from loading at startup? I don't use it and don't plan on using it, however I do not want to delete it from the system.

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Old 12-19-2008   #2 (permalink)


Vista home premium 64 bit
 
 

Re: Bluetooth

click on start
Right click on computer an choose manage
say yes to the pop up
in computer management at the bottom is services and applications
click on the arrow then on the services sub tab, see pic below.
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Double click on the sevice name and another window will appear.
Click on startup type and choose disable.
Click on OK.
Sorted
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Old 12-19-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium x64 - SP1
 
 

Re: Bluetooth

Thanks for the response Roy.

I Disabled the only Bluetooth reference I could find which was, "Bluetooth Support Service", restarted computer but it is still showing in the System Tray at startup. Odd thing is that the "Bluetooth Support Service" does not have a Description associated with it. The only other service that does not have a Description is the "Intel(R) Matrix Storage Event Monitor". Don't know how relevant that is though.

Any other suggestions?

Edit: Is it possible that it's integrated into the wireless settings somehow so that when the wireless loads it loads too?
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Old 12-19-2008   #4 (permalink)


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Re: Bluetooth

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Old 12-20-2008   #5 (permalink)


Vista home premium 64 bit
 
 

Re: Bluetooth

Go into device manager and disable it that way. You can tell the computer to disable the hardware device. Post your results.
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Old 12-20-2008   #6 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1....
 
 

Re: Bluetooth

Did you check your *Gateway* settings control panel? I have an HP Laptop that have both Wireless and Bluetooth - and I can enable either one or both or disable both....
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