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bluetooth mouse problems
I'm not sure if i am posting this to the right newsgroup, so my apologies if
it in't right. I have been helping a friend who has just got a new Kensington Bluetooth PilotMouse. I can install it on their system using a USB/Bluetooth dongle and all goes beautifully until he shuts his machine does for a period of time (30 minutes or more), and then when he starts his machine again, it no longers sees the mouse. He then has to re-install the dongle software all over again and do the discovery etc etc. I have used both the dongle and the mouse on two other machines but I don't experience the same problem. They both work fine on the other machines. My conclusion is, and i would love to be right, but would be just as happy for somebody to give me to correct solution, as the two machines that it works on are running XP Professional, whereas the machine that it doesn't work on is only running XP Home. that Professional has better bluetooth capabilities. If so, is there something that i can install on my friends machine to overcome this problem. Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer (even if it is only to say that you have had the same problem so that i don't think that i am going completely mad!), Renae |
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"Renae" wrote:
I have been helping a friend who has just got a new Kensington Bluetooth PilotMouse. I can install it on their system using a USB/Bluetooth dongle and all goes beautifully until he shuts his machine does for a period of time (30 minutes or more), and then when he starts his machine again, it no longers sees the mouse. He then has to re-install the dongle software all over again and do the discovery etc etc. It may help to disallow Windows to turn-off the device. Open the Device Manager, find the device and open the Properties. You can disable this under "Power Management". -- (tm) |
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Most dongle software is incompatible with XP SP2. Try uninstalling any mouse
software.Unplug the dongle . Turn off (completly off!) Restart. Plug in dongle, wait a few secs while XP SP2 loads its own drivers and then reinstall the mouse allowing XP to find the drivers if it asks. Hopefully the mouse will operate with the SP2 USB drivers. "Thorsten Matzner" wrote in message ... "Renae" wrote: I have been helping a friend who has just got a new Kensington Bluetooth PilotMouse. I can install it on their system using a USB/Bluetooth dongle and all goes beautifully until he shuts his machine does for a period of time (30 minutes or more), and then when he starts his machine again, it no longers sees the mouse. He then has to re-install the dongle software all over again and do the discovery etc etc. It may help to disallow Windows to turn-off the device. Open the Device Manager, find the device and open the Properties. You can disable this under "Power Management". -- (tm) |
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"Pat" wrote in message
Most dongle software is incompatible with XP SP2. Try uninstalling Not just the dongle software. The bluetooth support software that came with my Sony-Ericsson mobile wouldn't work reliably either. I uninstalled it completely and let WinXP handle the connection with its built-in support. And it does that brilliantly, thank you. -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com |
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The difference you're probably seeing between the two computers is likely
caused by having different bluetooth implementations. Look closely at the Bluetooth icons. If they are slightly different shaped or have different dialog boxes between the two computers, then you do have different implementations (and you can also view the company name in device manager). One implementation probably works better than the other with that particular mouse. Also make sure you keep fresh batteries in the mouse. We've some really strange behavior when mice batteries run low. Sandy Spinrad Developer, Windows Core Bluetooth ------------------------------------ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Renae" wrote in message ... I'm not sure if i am posting this to the right newsgroup, so my apologies if it in't right. I have been helping a friend who has just got a new Kensington Bluetooth PilotMouse. I can install it on their system using a USB/Bluetooth dongle and all goes beautifully until he shuts his machine does for a period of time (30 minutes or more), and then when he starts his machine again, it no longers sees the mouse. He then has to re-install the dongle software all over again and do the discovery etc etc. I have used both the dongle and the mouse on two other machines but I don't experience the same problem. They both work fine on the other machines. My conclusion is, and i would love to be right, but would be just as happy for somebody to give me to correct solution, as the two machines that it works on are running XP Professional, whereas the machine that it doesn't work on is only running XP Home. that Professional has better bluetooth capabilities. If so, is there something that i can install on my friends machine to overcome this problem. Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer (even if it is only to say that you have had the same problem so that i don't think that i am going completely mad!), Renae |
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