
If you don’t have any open USB ports, you can buy a USB hub or expansion card to get one to use. If the computer has that listed, you are ready to plug the adapter into an available USB port and start pairing your devices. Also, to make sure it has the drivers on your system, go into the Device Manager to check for a Bluetooth Network Connection. Otherwise, it may not connect the devices to your system. To use a system with Windows 10, you will need an adapter that has Bluetooth 3.0 or 4.0 on it. However, before buying an adapter, you need to know which Bluetooth version to buy. All you need to do is plug the adapter into a free USB port and then pair the Bluetooth devices to your system. An adapter, also known as a dongle, is the hardware that is necessary to connect to Bluetooth. Now I'm stuck with a completely useless dongle that Win7 won't install, and despite my extensive Google-fu, these drivers apparently don't exist ANYWHERE on the internet.Setting up a Windows 10 computer with Bluetooth is a simple task because Windows 10 has the necessary drivers for connecting it to the software. The "fun" part is that for reasons unrelated to this question, I no longer have the box/blister where the device came when I bought it, which had the disc with the drivers inside.ĭoes anybody here happen to have the same BT dongle that can facilitate me a copy of the files in the included CD for this device via ISO or some other way? I realize this is partly my own fault for not backing up the drivers from the included disc, but considering that I had saved the box with all its contents, even the instruction manual until my work room got "cleaned up" by the maid, I did not even come close to suspecting I'd EVER lose that box. Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. In my very-ticked-off-from-something-else state, I've no idea why I thought uninstalling the dongle would be a good idea, but I did, and now when I try reinstalling, the system DOES NOT recognize the dongle, and the Kinivo support site DOES NOT offer the files in the mini-CD that comes with the device. The following steps guide you through installation of the WIDCOMM Bluetooth driver in. However, the system wouldn't find the headset, despite being right next to each other and both devices being discoverable.

Today however, the thing didn't want to connect to my Bluetooth headset like it's been doing ever since I bought it, so I removed the headset from Bluetooth devices intending to re-pair it. I purchased a few months ago a Kinivo BTD-300 Bluetooth 3.0 USB dongle, and thus far have had very little issue with it. Machine: Acer Aspire 6676-7739g w/RAM upgraded to 8GB
