i got a laptop with built in bluetooth and it wont find it!!!!!

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#7369 9-Apr-2006 23:53

right the problem is i got a acer travelmate 4000wlmi laptop with blueetooth built in and it wont find my samsung d600! i tryed to find my laptop from my samsung and couldnt find nothin so i tryed to put discovery on but a message appeared saying " an error occured while windows was saving you settings. the following steps we not saved: discoveriabilty and connection settings" so please can u help thanks

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#32660 10-Apr-2006 00:21

This could be either be a problem with the registry, a faulty installation of this software, or non-authorised access to the registry (if you are not an Administrator on this PC)...

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#32762 10-Apr-2006 23:11

Well i have a cd with my laptop i installed it and just a bluetooth icon apperared in the tray. i am the administrator and iv tryed loads of things. do you think i should get it checked out?

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#32773 11-Apr-2006 07:54

Is there a physical button on the front or side that can turn bluetooth on and off?

(Colleagues would constantly come to me with Acer laptops saying their wifi wont work, so I would press the wifi button and give it back to them)

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#32774 11-Apr-2006 08:04

Also, not all laptops have built-in Bluetooth. Toshiba for example ships the same software for all laptops, regardless of hardware existing or not. So if you install the driver from the CD, the software will load but since there's no hardware, no Bluetooth.

Laptops either have no Bluetooth, or have Bluetooth built-in or are "Bluetooth ready". This means that there's a slot for their own Bluetooth hardware and the software is installed, but there's no actual Bluetooth there yet.

Are you sure this isn't the case?