In message , cameo
writes:
On 1/6/2019 6:50 PM, pjp wrote:
In article , lid says...

I purchased a BT 4.0 mouse that can also be used az a USB wireless
mouse, using a 2.4Ghz USB dongle. It works fine on my Win10 Lenovo
laptop in either mode, but on my older HP Win7 PC the BT connection does
not work. I wonder if it is because my HP laptop does not "understand"
the BT 4.0 standard or what? Could it be because the BT 4.0 mouse is not
downward compatible with possibly an older BT standard used by my Win7 PC?
Does your laptop have built-in Bluetooth? Do you see anything to do
with
Bluetooth under Device Manager? Is there a Bluetooth icon under Network
and Sharing Center/Change Adapter Settings? My laptops all require a
small add-on USB dongle but obviously newer laptops might have it built-
in.

Yes it has a built-in BT and I even used it with an older Microsoft
Model 5000 mouse till the paint on that mouse just started sticking to
my hand, like chocolate. Maybe that mouse was BT 2.0 or 3.0.

When you "hunt" - or whatever the right word is for Bluetooth [by the
way, for some UK readers "BT" means British Telecom, who do make - or at
;east sell - hardware under their own name!] - with that laptop's
Bluetooth, (a) does it "see" the mouse at all, (b) if it does, what does
it see it _as_?

I have a stranger problem, with a bluetooth speaker: It worked fine with
my old XP machine, so it certainly isn't a "too new" version problem.
This W7-32 machine "sees" it no problem - but thinks it's a keyboard!
(Wants me to type numbers on it to complete the "pairing".) Hence my (b)
question.
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