Monday, November 26, 2007

How to connect bluetooth with non-SP2 Windows version?

Windows XP SP2 has complete set of drivers to connect your bluetooth devices, however if you have older Windows versions, including Windows 2000, you need to install the vendor-supplied package for the Bluetooth device. The software usually contains a device driver and Bluetooth service management tools. There are many different kinds of Bluetooth adapters available in market.

Each bluetooth adapter brand has slight variation of installation procedure, however the general steps are,
1. Once you install the software package, there would a new My Bluetooth Places shortcut in user's desktop and a Bluetooth icon to the system tray. My Bluetooth Places opens like an ordinary folder in Windows Explorer. The content in this folder are the devices in the network and the supported services available. The available Bluetooth services, such as new devices searching and commencing/terminating local services, are shown in the Bluetooth Tasks sidebar.

2. You can open the system Bluetooth configuration utility in system tray icon or by using the "View or modify configuration" task in the My Bluetooth Places browser. Through this configuration utility, you may edit the Bluetooth settings, searching for devices in the network, and pair with the devices. There are also a number of unique vendor tools for services with paired mobile phones, such as dialing numbers, exchanging files and business cards, and others.

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