Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit Bluetooth Driver

[Aline Braunbeck]

HeyI installed this last night and am pretty happy with it; was surprised at how 'finished' the experience is being only preview software. Read some negative reports about how it is more desktop oriented now, but I'm liking it anyway.

**** UPDATE ****

Someone on WPCentral cracked the Bluetooth issue on the Dell Venue 8 Pro!

To reactivate BT, go to Dell and download the BT driver for the Dell Venue 8 Pro. Do NOT run the .exe - won't work. Rather, right click and extract the file, and follow the link to go to the extracted file.

From there, follow the rabbit trail of folders until you are finally inside the final Bluetooth Drivers folder.

Inside, there is one file with the suffix extension ".inf"

Again, do NOT double click; all that will happen is Notepad will open to view the file contents; rather, right click on this file and select "install".

You should then get a "successfully installed" pop up. When you then go into PC Settings.. PC and Devices, above the "Devices" link, you will see the "Bluetooth" link there as well and inside the on/off control and list of devices.

Nice thing was my devices were still there - I didn't have to re-pair anything. My keyboard and BT Mouse are now up and running happily on the Preview.

3. When its finished, go to exe file, double click it. A windows will pop out asking whether you want to Install or Extract. Choose Extract, then choose the location of where you want it to be. I suggest someplace easy to find.

4. After the extraction is complete, go to the location you chosen and look a folder called "drivers". Double click it, then choose "production", then choose "windows8.1-x86", then choose "Bluetooth-driver".

5. Next, you'll finally see a bunch of files. Look for "qcbtuart.inf". DONT double click, instead right click then choose Install. If you get a successful message then you're done. Don't even need to restart your device. I wrote this up immediately after I fixed mine.

Disregard the instruction to install from external; as you found out, it doesn't work. Save the install file to desktop or any other location in the tablet's C: Drive. Then simply run the file from there. It's that easy..

We have 2 Dell Venue 8 Pro tablets that we bought same time & same place. Trying to upgrade to Win 10. On one Microsoft Bluetooth mouse works fine. Going to devices shows Bluetooth listed. Going to Device Manager shows Bluetooth with 6 sublistings. Under Human Interface Devices it shows Microsoft hardware Bluetooth device.

I recently purchased an early 2015 13" Macbook Pro in which I have installed the Windows 10 technical preview on through Boot Camp Assistant. The initial build that I installed was 10162 and I had no issues installing the OS or the Boot Camp drivers. I had bluetooth connectivity with my Magic Mouse and all was well. Yesterday I updated Windows 10 to build 10166 and now Windows doesn't recognize the Bluetooth chipset. I tried running the troubleshooting tool in Windows and it says no driver could be found online. I'm assuming that there was a change from build 10162 and 10166 that caused this to happen and I guess I'll have to wait for Apple to update the Bluetooth Boot Camp drivers after the actual release of Windows 10. The drivers for the WiFi, camera, trackpad, etc... all seem to be working fine, it's just the Bluetooth driver that I seem to be having a problem with. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, have you found a resolution?

I have a mid 2014 MBP 15" running Windows 10 Build 10240 under Boot Camp 5.1.5640. I upgraded to Windows 10 directly from Windows 8.1 x64. I too cannot get Bluetooth to work, and am hopeful that Apple will address this with a newer Boot Camp version following the official release of Windows 10.

This configuration is merely a "sandbox" for me, as I prefer to work under OS X. However, I know some people who are wanting to run Windows 10 natively on Apple hardware (they've never latched on to OS X despite several attempts), and this issue is a potential show-stopper.

Thank you Loner; I was not able to get the Apple Boot Camp Bluetooth driver to work, but that generic Bluetooth Driver Installer mentioned in that thread did. Hopefully we won't need to use such workarounds in the relatively near future.

For the record, I've installed the released version of Windows 10 "fresh" (not an upgrade) via Boot Camp on two different MBPs now, and haven't had any Bluetooth problems...didn't need to use the third-party tool. So perhaps only upgrades are plagued by this?

I have a Late 2013 MB Pro, same bluetooth problem. I have tried all the different drives helpful people have posted. No joy. And since windows cannot find a driver on a net search either, I do not think it has anything to do with how the install is done. If Microsoft had access to a working driver the search would find it.

I have to believe it is variations in the broadcom chipset apple has used. Like you, everything else seems to be working (I did load the keyboard driver posted in the forums which restored the special function keys).

I think we are just going to have to wait on Apple to get bluetooth to work on some machines. I have no doubt Apple will release a driver, the question is when. I think Apple has lagged earlier Windows releases by 4-6 months. I am betting on drivers before the end of the year.

When i registered for the free upgrade on my Imac boot-camp copy of win 8.1 a report showed in the "get windows 10" app that the Bluetooth driver contained in boot-camp is not compatible with Windows 10 and to get updated driver from Apple. So we will have to wait for an update to boot-camp (i'm sure apple will be in a massive hurry to get that installed so people can use the much acclaimed and desired windows os!! ?. I would suggest using the generic Bluetooth driver suggested in one of the replies to this post, (maybe the one who stated the generic Bluetooth driver works can post a link to the download for that) if not you can use a wireless keyboard/mouse combo such as a Logitech keyboard.

I have installed Windows 7 on MacBook Pro using BootCamp. Usually when turning my Bluetooth headset on and trying to pair it with Mac for the first time, Windows fails to install the drivers and opens a solution in Action Center, which suggests to download the driver from the Broadcom webpage. This used to work for me before, drivers were installed and everything worked well. However now, when I start the driver installer, it would get stuck at "Detecting Bluetooth Device" stage. There is also a warning with text, which says "Please plug in or turn on your Bluetooth device":

Before installing the driver the laptop would detect the Bluetooth device (Creative D200 speakers) but not be able to pair due to lack of a driver, which it then searched for but could not download. After installation the speakers work fine. They use the A2DP high quality BlueTooth audio codec.

Apparently what it tries to find is the bluetooth receiver itself, not the device that connect to it (e.g. headset, mouse etc.). I have no idea why it didn't work with built-in device that is somewhere inside my laptop, but it did with another external bluetooth usb thumb. Once I have plugged it in, the installer has recognized it and installed drivers. Apparently same drivers worked for my built-in bluetooth, so i just unplugged usb thumb and since then it works for me. Hope this will be useful for someone.

This was driving me nuts. I put in a larger SSD today going from a 120GB to a 240GB and blew away my Windows partition to make the process easier to expand OS X, etc. After installing Windows again, the only thing in Device Manager that wouldn't load was the Bluetooth USB Host Controller. Tried every package in Bootcamp for version 4.0.4033 and 5.0.5033 and no luck.

Woila! itll detect everything on your MacBook and you should be able to connect your mouse to the computer at that point it takes about a minute or two to start seeing the mouse work and I'm assuming any hardware you try to connect will be similar. Not sure why people are making it difficult using editors etc this worked flawlessly.

The problem is mainly because the drivers provided by vendor does not support windows 10 (this happens if you have migrated from windows 7 or windows 8.1).Reinstalling the bluetooth driver (Programs and Features)only would solve the problem.

I had to open a ticket with the Intel support because uninstalling / repairing / installing the right driver wasn't working. The solution was to enter in the BIOS and setup the default setting. After reinstall the Bluetooth was back:

I have a Dell XPS 13 9350 and had to do a reset of the BIOS to fix this. No idea what had changed in the BIOS, but multiple restarts didn't help. After resetting the BIOS to Factory settings (not BIOS Defaults, but I didn't try that), Bluetooth worked as expected again.

Most of the solutions here did not work for me. In my case, my laptop had an Intel Wireless Bluetooth driver. After searching for that, I ended up on Intel's website and downloaded the latest version of the driver. After running the executable and doing a "Complete" install, I restarted my machine and the Bluetooth switch returned to the Settings window.

Another thing to consider, if you have a spare WLAN adapter / card for your laptop. You can also try to exchange the cards. Check if the Bluetooth afterwards works. Strangly for me it did with my old adapter as soon as I booted into Windows again. So I disabled Bluetooth, turned of the computer and switched my other one (previously not working) back in and it started immediately working again. The switch for turning on Bluetooth was showing up again and it was also listed in the device manager.

I tried most of the above listed suggestions but none did help or brought it back to life. However the quick swap did some magic. This seems to be a bug within Windows 10 because I'm pretty sure this wasn't a connection issue since the WLAN worked flawlessly. Another thing to note is that a driver update of either the WLAN or Bluetooth broke the Bluetooth functionality.

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