Does your Control Panel now have a separate Bluetooth Icon? One showed up
in my control panel as soon as I installed a Bluetooth USB adapter.

"JCHAgs95" <JCHAgs95@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:324C5C45-8EAF-4224-9E03-8FA799B453D5@microsoft.com...
> I'm having a similar problem. I installed a bluetooth dongl (Kensington
> Bluetooth USB Adapter 2.0) and the device manager shows it is working
> properly, but I can't access the bluetooth settings because I don't have
> an
> option to select "Bluetooth Devices" from the "Control Panel / Hardware
> and
> Sounds" as directed by the Windows Help and Support Screen.
>
> I may have the wrong driver for the USB bluetooth adapter, but the
> application I downloaded from the Kensington website won't run on my Vista
> laptop.
>
> My theory is that the Bluetooth Devices window in Vista will only activate
> when there is a bluetooth device present. Since my device may have the
> incorrect driver, Vista isn't recognizing it (even though the device
> manager
> says its OK). Can anyone confirm or deny this?
>
> This is extremely frustrating!
>
> "Mark Haas" wrote:
>
>> I have a new Dell with factory installed Vista Ultimate edition. I'm
>> trying
>> to connect bluetooth keyboard and mouse with some difficuly. Vista Help
>> points me to Control Panel/Hardware/Bluetooth Configuration but Bluetooth
>> Config is not there and I can't find it anywhere else in Control Panel.
>> I
>> checked my wife's Vista build and the icon and app is there.
>>
>> Dell's help desk first said I need a Bluetooth card (not!) then said that
>> the Hardware mngr function would not appear until I connected a Bluetooth
>> device which I also disagree with. Does anyone have any experience with
>> this?
>>
>> Thank you