Bluetooth Driver For Windows 10 Free Download

A user that wants to use a Bluetooth-enabled device brings the device within range of the computer and initiates a connection from the computer to the remote device using the following installation sequence for a client-side profile driver.

If the Found New Hardware Wizard doesn't find an appropriate driver for the device, it prompts the user to insert the profile driver installation media that contains the profile driver's device setup information file (INF file).

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The installation application must communicate with the Bluetooth driver stack to create a service GUID for the functionality to expose. Vendors specify the service GUID in the application and in their device installation INF file.

A profile driver's INF file contains information about a Bluetooth device for client-side installation. For a server-side installation, the INF file specifies a device ID that corresponds to the service GUID created by the installation application. All Bluetooth devices are members of the Bluetooth class. The Bluetooth class installer (Bthci.dll) helps with installing profile drivers.

The Bluetooth driver stack can be restricted to load your profile driver and software to run only on a specific release of a remote device by using Plug and Play IDs in both the remote device and the INF file. Note that the Bluetooth driver stack generates a VID/PID pair only if the device publishes a Plug and Play ID that the stack can detect using SDP. For example:

The Bluetooth driver stack can be restricted to load profile driver and software to run only on a specific local Bluetooth radio by specifying the LOCALMFG tag in the device ID in your INF file. For example:

I have installed the Windows 10 Technical Preview on my mid-2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch. I had been running Windows 7 with no problems. The installation had been done using Apple's BootCamp software. The problem is that, in Windows 10 Device Manager, my Bluetooth USB Host Controller (found in "Other Devices") shows that no drivers are installed. Worse yet, when I click on Properties for the device, I get:

Since W10 is not officially supported, the closest appropriate driver is in Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621 package. Can you download and check the Bootcamp.xml and check the version of Broadcom drivers in the package? Do not install it.

BTW with whatever driver I can connect my iMac to my MBP in Windows 10 Bootcamp with Bluetooth without problems, with full pairing and codes exchanged. (BTW2 Keyboard and mouse connect fine to any Mac, just not in Windows 10).

My problem - I've running Windows 10 on my Late 2011 MBP in Bootcamp. I'd upgraded from Windows 7 where I'd been running bluetooth sucessfully. However, the Late 2011 MBP is not supported by Apple for Windows 10 though many people are using it successfully nevertheless. After some fiddling with Windows Services I got my Magic Mouse and Apple Keyboard working okay. However in the past little while, I noticed that I could not connect to my BT speaker or other devices. In fact, the speaker wasn't discoverable, but only on this machine. In the course of taking online advice, I deleted my Magic Mouse from Bluetooth, and then it wasn't discoverable either, and my keyboard had also dropped off for no apparent reason.

So the search for drivers.... I did a uninstall and reinstall using the default Apple driver, but the problem persisted. I tried ridhyop's solution, which made the mouse and keyboard discoverable (improvement), but pairing was too flaky to work. I search on!

I tried rolling back my installed driver, and then running it, and I tried to install the drivers manually, but couldn't find them independently of the package. Also not sure why a Wireless driver will help Bluetooth.

There is collaboration between BT and Wireless. W10 is problematic on a 2011 model, if clean installed. We are trying to find a driver that will work. What is the possibility of installing W7/W8.1 on this Mac temporarily?

Bootcamp Drivers Windows 10 - Microsoft Community This one involved repeating the Legacy driver install that you suggested above, but setting it to compatibility mode using Properties. I then did the same thing with the other Broadcom drivers as follows:

I should just add, that not only did I have Bluetooth running on Win7, but that after upgrading to Win10 that my mouse and keyboard continued to connect okay. The only problem I had was that other bluetooth devices (eg. speakers) would not. So, I started on this path to connect some speakers.

The last two days, I've been experiencing constant troubles with my bluetooth driver. In summary, the bluetooth toggle bar had disappeared, but did not reappear after turning my pc off and on again. When checking the device manager, the bluetooth driver seemed to be present, but greyed out. Similarly, the network adapter 'Bluetooth device (personal area network)' was greyed out. (See added .png, the icons in red are gone or greyed out).

After looking for ways of dealing with this problem online, I reinstalled the bluetooth driver again, which it successfully did, but again the icons appeared greyed out. After turning my pc off and on again for a second time, suddenly everything was fine again.

However, I quickly noticed that every time my pc went into sleep mode, the problem would occur again, after which I had to reinstall the driver many times over again, turn my pc off and on again, go on online forums to see if it had anything to do with incompatibility issues of older or newer versions ... basically anything I, a layperson, could think of.

I managed to reinstall the most recent bluetooth driver via the Intel website, and miraculously, everything seemed to work again. I then shut down my pc. The next day, I activated my pc and simultaneously activated my headphones to look for bluetooth connection. It connected successfully and keeps doing so, but only if I rigorously avoid getting my pc in sleep mode. At a certain moment, however, when the bluetooth toggle bar was visible but my headphones were disconnected for some odd 15 minutes perhaps, I saw the icon disappear, after which I checked the device manager and found everything in grey again.

By reinstalling the driver several times more, intermixed with turning my pc off and on again, somehow I managed to get bluetooth working again (this time, I downloaded it from the Acer website, where I installed the version they recommended for my particular Acer pc model). IDSA keeps, however, suggesting an update of the Intel Wireless Bluetooth Driver (to version 22.120.0.3), and I'm scared to do it. Also, I'm not sure if the currently working bluetooth driver will or won't crash when I disconnect my headphones again ...

We provide generic drivers for general purposes. Your computer manufacturer (OEM) might have customized drivers and software to enable or alter features, or provide improved operation on your computer. Therefore, the usual recommendation is to use the OEM driver as the first option. Also, Intel Driver & Support Assistant (Intel DSA) just scans drivers updates using the Intel database, which will only offer generic drivers when it comes to third-party systems; in this case, It is not always a must to install driver updates offered by the tool if the current OEM drivers are working fine. In that scenario, you may just disregard the update notification.

1- We understood that this issue started two days ago. Do you remember if there were any Hardware or Software changes (e.g.: operating system, BIOS, Wireless/Bluetooth driver, or software updates?) that may relate to the point when the issue started?

Thanks for replying. I can confirm that after I installed the driver recommend by Acer, bluetooth seemed to work fine. I changed the settings of my pc to never go into sleep mode (like I mentioned before, sleep mode seemed to trigger this 'bug'). Since the time of my previous post, my bluetooth driver has bugged out only once. I had a lot of different .exe files on my pc at the time (all different but similar installation wizards that I downloaded from the Intel or Acer website) and I decided to get red of them all and uninstall the (now greyed out again) bluetooth driver and start out 'clean'.

I downloaded a fresh .exe installation wizard from the Intel website (the one that was recommended for Windows 10 & 11 - I have Windows 11). Everything seemed to be working fine after that. I have experienced no problems since, but I have also been extra careful by never letting my pc go into sleep mode, shutting my pc off when I'm not actively using it, and deactivating bluetooth whenever I'm not listening to any audio. This seems to ensure that the driver icon does not grey out in my device manager.

1. About two or three (maybe more, but certainly not less) weeks before the problem first occurred, I got a recommendation to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, which I did. However, I doubt that this caused the problems I've experienced with my bluetooth driver because of the lengthy interval between the installation of Windows 11 and the problems first arising.

3. Currently, the device manager tells me that Intel Wireless Bluetooth is working fine. Previously, when the different icons were greyed out in my device manager, it showed 'error code 45', which apparently means that the device is disconnected. I was however unable to connect it in any way because I didn't know how, or why it got disconnected in the first place. This error code persisted every time I reinstalled the driver after it greyed out (while it was working, it said in the general properties that everything was working fine).

4. The computer is four years old. There have never been any issues of any kind, except for the Spotify app, which sometimes automatically reinstalls when I try to open it. This takes a few seconds, a minute max. Perhaps the following might be interesting for you to know: during the process of iteratively discarding and reinstalling my bluetooth driver, I ran 'System Restore' (specifically the option that retains all personal documents, but gets rid of apps and settings) since this reinstalling didn't seem to work. However, this didn't accomplish anything specific, except for me having to reinstall a lot of apps aside from the Bluetooth driver. I also ran, as an administrator, the command sfc /scannow in the command prompt window to check the integrity of my system files and repair them if necessary, but no integrity issues were found. 9af72c28ce