Old but always good and useful solution to remember to install the drivers of a Bluetooth USB stick, without downloading and installing anything but, using the integrated Windows 10 drivers . The problem with USB sticks for Bluetooth connection on PCs that have not integrated it is that the drivers that are required to make it work on the PC are 50 or 60 Megabyte installation packages. Until recently, I too, ignoring the procedure I am about to illustrate, had installed 60 Mega BlueSoleil drivers, which put other management programs on my PC, unusable because they were paid. Instead, on Windows 10, the bluetooth drivers are already inside, you just have to show them manually.
When you insert the BlueTooth connectivity key on the USB port, the usual "found new hardware" pop-up appears and, in the subsequent automatic search for the driver, it cannot find anything.
So you need to make Bluetooth recognize Windows by following these easy steps :
1) Go to the c: \ windows \ inf \ folder and look for the bth.inf file,
right click on that file, and open it with the Notepad.
You can also go to Start -> Run and write notepad c: \ windows \ inf \ bth.inf .
This file contains information about bluetooth devices that Windows automatically recognizes.
2) Scrolling through the bth.inf file with the notepad, we stop where [Manufacturer] is written, checking that there are several names just below.
At the beginning or end of this section, you need to insert your USB stick and write:
PomheyBT = PomheyBT, NT.5.1
Instead of the word " Pomhey " you can write whatever you want.
Click on File -> Save to save the change but without closing the file with the notepad.
NOTE: If there are authorization problems, see here how to solve the access denied problem and change the permissions on the file.
4) Leaving it aside for a moment, you must go to the Desktop and right-click on " My Computer " by choosing the " Properties " item.
go to the " Hardware " -> " device manager " table and look for the yellow escalamt point indicating a device that is not working.
5) By right clicking on that peripheral, you still choose the " properties " item and then the " details " tab.
In the drop-down menu you need to choose " Hardware ID " which will consist of two lines, the second of which is similar to this:
USB \ Vid_0331 & Pid_0110
6) Well, this line must be copied and annotated as it is to insert it in the bth.inf file that we had opened and modified before.
On that file, going down, there is the item " Device Section - Start ".
in which the following line must be inserted:
[PomheyBT.NT.5.1]
PomheyBT Bluetooth USB Adapter = BthUsb, USB \ Vid_0331 & Pid_0110
7) Now you can save the file and close the notepad.
By reinserting the Bluetooth USB stick, and redoing the automatic search for the driver, this time, Windows will recognize the driver and start the correct installation of Bluetooth on the computer . If the Found New Hardware Wizard still does not appear, you must answer "NO" to the question of whether to recover the drivers through Windows Update, press "Next", and choose to automatically install the drivers.
With this procedure, you dare to use the Bluetooth key, without installing any external program or driver, but using directly the integrated Windows ones.
If there are problems with this procedure, you can also use a small program called Bluetooth Driver Installer which will try to install the Microsoft standard bluetooth driver. This program works to install the Bluetooth driver on Windows.
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