Bluetooth Device Mngr Missing from Vista Ult Control Panel/Hardwar

I have a MS Bluetooth mouse and it works just fine with Vista and with the
MS Bluetooth USB dongle. First make sure that you push the little button on
the dongle for about 15 seconds to get it to register with the OS. Then
from the Bluetooth icon in the control panel make sure you push the little
button on the bottom of the mouse or keyboard when you are telling it you
want to add a device.
"kanderstag" <kanderstag@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C56FDF87-47C2-41CC-A714-78E457670AA5@microsoft.com...
> I'm in the same boat. I have the MS Elite bluetooth combo and am using
> Vista
> Ultimate 64bit. Vista seems to see the bluetooth transceiver, I get the
> bluetooth icon in the systray, but I cannot open its settings. Trying to
> add
> a new device is beyond frustrating as neither keyboard nor mouse are
> recognized. Both intellipoint drivers are installed, but even then,
> clicking
> on their desktop icons for adding a mouse or keyboard do nothing but give
> directions and the little "Add Bluetooth Devices" link within does not
> work.
>
> It's as if Vista doesn't recognize the bt dongle. I cannot find it in
> Control Panel classic view, and yet if I go to Device Manager it is there,
> "working properly." At wit's end with this circus, I tried the install on
> XP
> and it went without a hitch. Both keyboard and mouse were recognized.
>
> I tried again on Vista and back to the ever-frustrating puzzle. The icing
> on the cake is the bt icon disappearing from the systray after five to ten
> minutes. Nothing is hidden, it just decides to take a little siesta... or
> play hide and seek.
>
> "lordstanleyiscominghome@gmail.com" wrote:
>
>> I have the exact same issue... my bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse is working
>> but in the control panel no Bluetooth hardware exists and there is no
>> bluetooth icon in the systray like XP.
>>
>> If I run the bluetooth application from the start menu (bttray.exe) it
>> does absolutely nothing so i'm not able to sync my bluetooth phone or
>> have it discover any other devices.
>>
>>

Perhaps therein is our difference, there is no little button on the bt
dongle. However, this setup works just fine in XP (32bit).

Vista Ultimate 64bit
IP64Eng6.20.182.0 driver for the mouse
Microsoft Wireless Transceiver for Bluetooth, Model 1003
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth, Model 1001
....oh how cute, the keyboard model number is 1002.

There is a significant difference when connecting the dongle in Xp vs Vista.
In XP, the systray notifications go through a few notices of generic usb
hub, bluetooth, etc. In Vista, the only notice is generic usb hub and then
the little bt icon appears in the systray.


"Curious" wrote:

> I have a MS Bluetooth mouse and it works just fine with Vista and with the
> MS Bluetooth USB dongle. First make sure that you push the little button on
> the dongle for about 15 seconds to get it to register with the OS. Then
> from the Bluetooth icon in the control panel make sure you push the little
> button on the bottom of the mouse or keyboard when you are telling it you
> want to add a device.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/911894

That did it for me, I was able to connect both devices without a hitch upon
reboot. I was also surprised I could enter the bios on boot via the
bluetooth keyboard. Hooray google and desperate perservation! lol