Windows XP Bluetooth Warning & Fix
Posted by admin | Filed under Random
I discovered yet another flaw with Windows XP today. I have a Bluetooth wireless desktop (keyboard & mouse) from Logitech and I wanted to connect to my Razr, but the My Bluetooth Places took forever to come up and when it did it was blank. I would close that window and see a message saying “Unable to start Bluetooth stack service.”
After an hour of reinstalling and some digging around, I find out that Service Pack 2 for XP’s bluetooth support likes to override any custom software you install to manage Bluetooth. In this case, Logitech had bundled the best BT stack from WIDCOMM, which acted fine until you wanted to manage devices. I found this page (http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=840635) on Microsoft that tells you how to disable the native support for Bluetooth. After another remove, restart, reinstall, restart, it’s working fine at last and I’ve downloaded all the pictures from my phone.
