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Turn off bluetooth radio in Windows
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Cadaver
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Sep 18, 2008, 11:49 AM
 
OK, its very simple to turn off the bluetooth radio (to save battery power) when working in MacOS.

But for the life of me I can't find how to do this in Windows. I'm presently using Vista SP1 though I didn't see how to do it in Windows XP Pro before that. The Windows drivers are updated to the lastest Boot Camp 2.1.

I'm no idiot when it comes to using Windows; I consider myself an advanced Windows user. However, every other Windows machine I've used has installed somewhere a little BT control panel to allow you to turn off the BT radio power. As far as I can tell, there is no such software item installed with Boot Camp.

And I don't want to have to dig in and disable/re-enable the BT drivers. That's a pretty big pain and can occasionally require reboots or delete current pairings.

Anyone?
     
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Sep 18, 2008, 02:51 PM
 
Without a hardware switch or a utility like other brands have, disabling the device in device manager is probably the fastest way, but it's like 5 clicks instead of 2.
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