win 10 device manager

Hadn't looked at the device manager in detail for some time; now
trying to see how I can permanently remove the BlueTooth icon
from the "action panel" to stop it lighting up on occasion when
it pops up. I don't have bluetooth or wireless on the desktop.
Both bluetooth services are disabled in the computer services.

Looking at the device manager in win 10 is very illuminating as
all hardwired devices on my network showed up. So, does m$
intend to manage my devices? The audio-visual receiver is listed
as both blue-ray players & my usb3 harddrive is also listed.

I'm not using the m$ media player at any time & the windows media
player network sharing service is disabled.

Wonder if an update will list the wifi connections to the router which
is also listed in the device manager..........sneaky!

lew wrote:
Hadn't looked at the device manager in detail for some time; now
trying to see how I can permanently remove the BlueTooth icon
from the "action panel" to stop it lighting up on occasion when
it pops up. I don't have bluetooth or wireless on the desktop.
Both bluetooth services are disabled in the computer services.

Looking at the device manager in win 10 is very illuminating as
all hardwired devices on my network showed up. So, does m$
intend to manage my devices? The audio-visual receiver is listed
as both blue-ray players & my usb3 harddrive is also listed.

I'm not using the m$ media player at any time & the windows media
player network sharing service is disabled.

Wonder if an update will list the wifi connections to the router which
is also listed in the device manager..........sneaky!

Device Manager has enable/disable capability
for local hardware.

Wireless devices should have "airplane mode" or
a radio switch to disable the RF part. For
example, my Windows 7 laptop has the RF disabled,
as I never use Wifi (and my home router doesn't
have Wifi either).

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-airplane-mode

Hardware in your home which is networked over Ethernet,
may support UPNP or DLNA, and be able to communicate
with the computer. In particular, Windows Media Player
supports streaming, and can serve a movie to a networked
TV set. It's possible a Blu-Ray player might support
something similar. The Blu-Ray player may also need the
network connection when it goes to play certain content,
as key revocation or firmware updates for DRM reasons,
use a network connection. In some cases, older content
you own, no longer plays after the Blu-Ray player has
updated itself (useful...).

With sufficient disable-ment, you can make it all
disappear. Such that the computer is "unaware"
of the multimedia devices on the LAN. In fact,
one of the early prompts you answered, made
it possible to see them.

Paul