Does anyone know how to get 32Feet.NET to work with the ABE Bluetooth Controller?  I've just had windows update download and install the latest authorized driver, suddenly stopping not just all my BT apps, but my own developments as well!

 If anyone knows either how to get 32feet working or how to uninstall ABE and get the old microsoft generic radio working again I would be very grateful.

Matt.

Go to Device Manager and fiddle with the drivers... :-,)  I installed a wireless NIC driver (from WU) that broke hibernation and I managed to roll it back.  Maybe in fact I used System Restore?  Otherwise, go to the Device Manager, select the radio hardware, uninstall the driver and then (err) update, and pick the driver by hand...?

sorry for being a muppet, but how do i select the driver by hand?  are you saying that windows allows me to select a previous driver they provided? because if they do, i'm winning, i want the original SP2 driver, not the rubbish they're distributing now.

 thanks,
matt.

Well in Device Manager (compmgmt.msc etc), the "Driver" tab of a device property dialog has a <Roll Back Driver> button, see if that works.  Otherwise on hitting <Update Driver...> I choose No to WU, then "Install from a list or specific location", then "Don't search", then e.g <Have Disk>.  Hopefully something along those lines will work if System Restore doesn't.

Thanks for all the help.

I've not solved the problem, but I managed to find a bth.inf file on the net which happened to have a lot of bluetooth driver entries.  I stuck this in a directory along with all the correct driver files I assumed priovided the original Generic Microsoft Radio functionality.  Then, after uninstalling anything to do with bluetooth, reinstalled using Choose location -> Have Disc, and pointing to that location.  The Generic... entry and Microsoft Bluetooth... entry came back to the Device Manager, without ABE..., but setting the bluetooth device to receive a file, for example, still does not work.  Although I can pair easily enough.

I'm going to try taking a complete copy of the system32 and sticking the bth.inf in there, on the guess that maybe there was another file missing, as the reinstall did not go completely smoothly.

 I have another problem, which I'll post seperately, involving the example Bluetooth Chat working fine in Visual Basic, but not in C#...   if anyone feels like taking a stab.

Thanks again,

Matt. W.

Ok, glad you got it sorted. :-)