No "Bluetooth Devices" icon under Control Panel

Hi,
I cannot find "Bluetooth Devices" under Control Panel - so I cant
connect my mobile phone up to my laptop

I've spent 2 hours googling a solution but with no luck


Any ideas


Cheers
Doug

You'll need SP2 and a dongle that is supported by the Microsoft drivers. I
just went thru this myself. Bought a bluetooth 2 device, had to install the
included drivers, couldn't get ActiveSync 4.5 to work, no Control Panel
icon. Bought a D-Link DBT-120 dongle. Plugged it in, XP SP2 recognized it,
& I got the Bluetooth icon in Control Panel.

Cleve

<dougnheffernan@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1185475370.655778.308640@19g2000hsx.googlegro ups.com...
> Hi,
> I cannot find "Bluetooth Devices" under Control Panel - so I cant
> connect my mobile phone up to my laptop
>
> I've spent 2 hours googling a solution but with no luck
>
>
> Any ideas
>
>
> Cheers
> Doug
>

I have the same problem but worse. I have no Bluetooth Icon in the Control
Panel and no Bluetooth listing in the device manager. I have a Logitech
dongle/hub and XP SP2, or so it says, but nothing I've tried has gotten an
Bluetooth Icon in the Control Panel. I even tried the "scan for hardware
changes" in Device Manger and nothing. MY wireless keyboard and mice all
work, but without the Bluetooth Icon or Add Bluetooth Printer button in
Printers & Fax I can't get the printer to hook up. Why is the Icon missing
from the Control Panel and the listing from the Device Manager? Do I have
the wrong version of Windows?

"Cleve S." wrote:

> You'll need SP2 and a dongle that is supported by the Microsoft drivers. I
> just went thru this myself. Bought a bluetooth 2 device, had to install the
> included drivers, couldn't get ActiveSync 4.5 to work, no Control Panel
> icon. Bought a D-Link DBT-120 dongle. Plugged it in, XP SP2 recognized it,
> & I got the Bluetooth icon in Control Panel.
>
> Cleve
>
> <dougnheffernan@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1185475370.655778.308640@19g2000hsx.googlegro ups.com...
> > Hi,
> > I cannot find "Bluetooth Devices" under Control Panel - so I cant
> > connect my mobile phone up to my laptop
> >
> > I've spent 2 hours googling a solution but with no luck
> >
> >
> > Any ideas
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Doug
> >
>
>
>

On Sep 13, 9:10 pm, Bob Woolf ogwo...@gmail.com <Bob Woolf
ogwo...@gmail.com@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have the same problem but worse. I have no Bluetooth Icon in the Control
> Panel and no Bluetooth listing in the device manager. I have a Logitech
> dongle/hub and XP SP2, or so it says, but nothing I've tried has gotten an
> Bluetooth Icon in the Control Panel. I even tried the "scan for hardware
> changes" in Device Manger and nothing. MY wireless keyboard and mice all
> work, but without the Bluetooth Icon or Add Bluetooth Printer button in
> Printers & Fax I can't get the printer to hook up. Why is the Icon missing
> from the Control Panel and the listing from the Device Manager? Do I have
> the wrong version of Windows?
>
>
>
> "Cleve S." wrote:
> > You'll need SP2 and a dongle that is supported by the Microsoft drivers. I
> > just went thru this myself. Bought a bluetooth 2 device, had to install the
> > included drivers, couldn't get ActiveSync 4.5 to work, no Control Panel
> > icon. Bought a D-Link DBT-120 dongle. Plugged it in, XP SP2 recognized it,
> > & I got the Bluetooth icon in Control Panel.
>
> > Cleve
>
> > <dougnheffer...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:1185475370.655778.308640@19g2000hsx.googlegr oups.com...
> > > Hi,
> > > I cannot find "Bluetooth Devices" under Control Panel - so I cant
> > > connect my mobile phone up to my laptop
>
> > > I've spent 2 hours googling a solution but with no luck
>
> > > Any ideas
>
> > > Cheers
> > > Doug- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

You should know that several Bluetooth "dongles" that are included
with a keyboard/mouse combo can be "limited" to only those devices.