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re: Removing Bluetooth Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:53 am Posted by Kevinh (634 messages posted) In device manager don't uninstall the drivers they will just come back as you have found you have to disable the bluetooth hardware. Right click on the bluetooth adaptor and select disable or go into it's properties and select disable. On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:14 am, Gary wrote: >I got a used laptop that has blutooth. I want to emove it. I go to device manager >and uninstall bluetooth radios, i even go to c:\windows\inf and rename bth.inf to >bth.inf.old and the same for bth.pnf to bth.pnf.old >and I cannot get rid of this thing. it reloads bluethooth radios the instant i uninstall >them >How do i get rid of this forever? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Removing Bluetooth Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 5:13 am Posted by Kevinh (634 messages posted) There is another alternative, if the bluetooth adapter/transmitter is not part of the MoBo you could get someone techy to physically remove it. On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:53 am, Kevinh wrote: >In device manager don't uninstall the drivers they will just come back as you have >found you have to disable the bluetooth hardware. Right click on the bluetooth adaptor >and select disable or go into it's properties and select disable. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum