Blue tooth in Win7 [Dell Laptop]

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Blue tooth in Win7 [Dell Laptop]
hi
i have dell inspire 1525 and just installed windows 7 RC but i cannot get blue tooth icon in notification & control panel area even i can see that blue tooth light is not ON - is there any driver problem? in device manager, everything is installed and there is no warning/error etc

need help ASAP, its my office laptop and i want to install blue tooth devices on it.

thanks
 
Rob Williams

Rob Williams

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I haven't used Bluetooth enough to be of great help here, but did you look under the Control Panel to see if there are any Bluetooth-related options there? If there is, maybe there's an option within that allows you to enable the systray icon. You might also want to run Windows Update to see if it can find any updates related to Bluetooth as well.

Another option would be to head to the Dell support website and see if they're currently offering Bluetooth downloads for your particular model with Windows 7. I'm thinking chances of that are slim, but it's worth a shot.
 
Rob Williams

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Again, I'm not familiar with Bluetooth at all, so these recommendations might be bad, but one option is to download a commerical Bluetooth driver like BlueSoleil:

http://bluesoleil.com/download/

Perhaps it will enable Bluetooth to work in Windows 7, but I'm not sure. I believe that the 1525 is an older notebook, so getting official drivers for Windows 7 might be a very difficult process, if it's possible at all.
 
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