Hey guys!
this would be important to those who lost their bluetooth driver Disc.
Windows XP comes bundled with a generic bluetooth driver.
When a compatible bluetooth device is plugged in, windows detects it you can use the device without manufacterer's drivers.
here, we'll make our bluetooth dongle Windows compatible!
how to do it :
- plug the bluetooth dongle.
- cancel the driver installation wizard.
- go to device manager & right click on the "usb device" that would be written in yellow color then click on properties.
- now click on the "Details" tab.
- you will see a drop-down list box, from the box select "Hardware Ids"
- in the below box you will see 2 different hardware ids.
- click on the last hardware id & press Ctrl+C to copy the hardware id.
- now goto run & type "c:\windows\inf\bth.inf"
- a notepad file will appear
- scroll down a bit till u find different manufactures name in square brackets[]. below will be the model name & number of the bluetooth that windows in-built driver supports.
- now under any manufacture's name type the name you want to give to ur bluetooth device.
- after that out "=" & then type "BthUsb," then put a space and then paste the hardware id.
- Example :
I want my bluetooth name to be "High Speed Bluetooth 2.4Ghz"
so i will write :
High Speed Bluetooth 2.4Ghz=BthUsb, "hardware id"
lets say this way:
High Speed Bluetooth 2.4Ghz=BthUsb, USB\VID_413C&PID_8103
- now save the file by going to file menu-> save. vista users must give rights to the bth.inf file before saving the file or it won't save.
- now go to the bluetooth properties from where you copied the hardware id and go to the driver file.
- click re-install driver or update driver.
- let windows search the driver automatically.
- windows will treat the usb device as compatible which has in-built driver support.
- done!
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