Subscribe Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition Blogging about Windows seeing that previously Vista grew to become a awful wordIt certainly bugs me from time to time that Microsoft imposes artificial restrictions on Windows versions considering they believe options are out of scope. Case in stage is Windows Server 2008. Now, there isn't a earthly good reason why WS2008 can’t support Bluetooth right from the box. An yet, simply because someone on the Server team decided that servers don’t use Bluetooth,
Office Pro 2010 Product Key, if you’re one of the thousands of people who use WS2008 as a workstation,
Microsoft Office Pro 2007 Activation Key, you’re SOL. Suppose just installing your Bluetooth drivers, or enabling the “Wireless LAN Services” feature will do it? Consider again.Gil Kirkpatrick posted a solution a couple of weeks ago, and it works like a charm. It involves modifying the INF files from the default WS2008 installation to install the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on WS2008. Simply because it’s kind of a time consuming process,
Office 2010 Standard Keygen, I’ve taken the liberty of completing the required steps,
Office 2010 Pro Key, and dumping them in a Zip file, albeit only for WS2008 x64. All you need to do is: install your BT drivers as normal, unzip the folder to C:BT open up Device Manager right click any items that still say “Unknown Device” and select “Update Drivers” Select the bottom menu option and browse to the C:BT folder “Lather, rinse,
Windows 7 Enterprise Serial, repeat” for any other Unknown Devices You can find the zip file here. Hopefully that will keep you from beating your head against the wall, as I did, over my #$%^&* Bluetooth mouse.