Bluetooth problems, and ms windows update problems, and a load more.(long)

[Guest nielsdimmers@gmail.com]

Lectori Salutem,

 

Let me explain about the troubles I have with my laptop (asus, dual

boot in win XP sp 2 and kubuntu) and all the mess that goes with it.

 

1. The windows bluetooth software expired a few months ago. I never

paid much attention to this, since I wasn't in the ability to use my

bluetooth connection anyway.

 

2. two days ago, my father bought a bluetooth equipped telephone, in

order to try to connect to his telephone using bluetooth, I found that

I didn't have any windows xp software on my laptop to use with it, and

I had trouble finding the standard software from windows update (see

later on). In order to find out if my bluetooth connection exsisted,

and worked, I rebooted in kubuntu and everything was fine. This

confirms both the exsistence, as well as the operationability of the

bluetooth in my laptop.

 

3. In order to use bluetooth in windows, I wanted to download the

standard bluetooth software windows gives along every copy of XP, but

is abcent in mine. According to some hints on the internet (amongst

wich some of microsoft itself) I should try to connect to windows

update and try to download it from there. The site told me I had to

have IE 5 or higher to connect to the update service, I reloaded the

page in IE (version SEVEN, dutch) and nothing happened. After some

trying, I got the same message as in my standard browser (Opera):

download IE 5 or newer. Not even surprised, I tried to find the dutch

ms download center, wich (according to the site) couldn't be found.

Finally, I managed to download and install an English version of IE7

(through http://www.download.com) and went to visit windows update again. Now

I got to the website allright, and it wanted to install an ActiveX

control element, I accepted, the site reloaded, and does absolutely

nothing! It just keeps waiting at "Bezig met zoeken naar de nieuwste

versie van de Windows Update-software..." (looking for the newest

version of the Windows Update Software...).

 

Completely frustrated and annoyed, I decided to place the whole story

in a newsgroup. If anyone could answer any one of the following

questions, I would be greatly helped:

 

1. How, using what kind of software, do I connect the bluetooth of my

laptop to another bluetooth equipped machine? Where do I download such

software?

2. Can you explain the mistery of the "bug" in the microsoft windows

update site? What happened?

3. Is the bluetooth software really in the microsoft windows update

center? Wouldn't it be more logical for it to be in the download

center? Or is the microsoft help-site just pointing me in the wrong

direction (either one wouldn't suprise me)?

4. How do I connect to both the dutch version of microsoft windows

update, and the dutch microsoft download center?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Niels.

[Guest smlunatick]

Re: Bluetooth problems, and ms windows update problems, and a load more.(long)

 

On Aug 17, 9:26 am, nielsdimm...@gmail.com wrote:

> Lectori Salutem,

>

> Let me explain about the troubles I have with my laptop (asus, dual

> boot in win XP sp 2 and kubuntu) and all the mess that goes with it.

>

> 1. The windows bluetooth software expired a few months ago. I never

> paid much attention to this, since I wasn't in the ability to use my

> bluetooth connection anyway.

>

> 2. two days ago, my father bought a bluetooth equipped telephone, in

> order to try to connect to his telephone using bluetooth, I found that

> I didn't have any windows xp software on my laptop to use with it, and

> I had trouble finding the standard software from windows update (see

> later on). In order to find out if my bluetooth connection exsisted,

> and worked, I rebooted in kubuntu and everything was fine. This

> confirms both the exsistence, as well as the operationability of the

> bluetooth in my laptop.

>

> 3. In order to use bluetooth in windows, I wanted to download the

> standard bluetooth software windows gives along every copy of XP, but

> is abcent in mine. According to some hints on the internet (amongst

> wich some of microsoft itself) I should try to connect to windows

> update and try to download it from there. The site told me I had to

> have IE 5 or higher to connect to the update service, I reloaded the

> page in IE (version SEVEN, dutch) and nothing happened. After some

> trying, I got the same message as in my standard browser (Opera):

> download IE 5 or newer. Not even surprised, I tried to find the dutch

> ms download center, wich (according to the site) couldn't be found.

> Finally, I managed to download and install an English version of IE7

> (throughwww.download.com) and went to visit windows update again. Now

> I got to the website allright, and it wanted to install an ActiveX

> control element, I accepted, the site reloaded, and does absolutely

> nothing! It just keeps waiting at "Bezig met zoeken naar de nieuwste

> versie van de Windows Update-software..." (looking for the newest

> version of the Windows Update Software...).

>

> Completely frustrated and annoyed, I decided to place the whole story

> in a newsgroup. If anyone could answer any one of the following

> questions, I would be greatly helped:

>

> 1. How, using what kind of software, do I connect the bluetooth of my

> laptop to another bluetooth equipped machine? Where do I download such

> software?

> 2. Can you explain the mistery of the "bug" in the microsoft windows

> update site? What happened?

> 3. Is the bluetooth software really in the microsoft windows update

> center? Wouldn't it be more logical for it to be in the download

> center? Or is the microsoft help-site just pointing me in the wrong

> direction (either one wouldn't suprise me)?

> 4. How do I connect to both the dutch version of microsoft windows

> update, and the dutch microsoft download center?

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Niels.

 

I have yet to see any Bluetooth "driver" expire in XP. You need to

have a PC with a Bluetooth adapter (on motherboard, additional add-in

adapter or USB) so a driver can "stay" in Device Manager. There are

two kinds of Bluetooth drivers, Microsoft ones or WidComm versions.

Hardware that supports one driver version does not support the second

one. Microsoft has a version of Bluetooth drivers that supports a

"limited" feature set (ie: Communications, networking, Sync.)

WildComm drivers provide additional features, such as file transfers,

OBEX etc.)