{"id":803,"date":"2009-02-26T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=803"},"modified":"2009-03-08T23:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T04:48:27","slug":"bluetooth-on-laptops-with-windows-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/2009\/02\/26\/bluetooth-on-laptops-with-windows-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth on Laptops with Windows 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was informed via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharepoint-tips.com\/2009\/02\/finally-solution-to-having-bluetooth-in.html\">Ishai&#8217;s blog<\/a> that he has been able to find and implement the solution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dev-toast.com\/2007\/01\/05\/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-vista-rtm\">here<\/a> to get his Bluetooth to work on Windows 2008 with hyper-V installed.\u00a0Since I only use x64 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=694\">Windows Server operating systems<\/a> on my laptops (for the same reasons he does), I have been desprately looking to find a fix to enable Bluetooth feature on my lovely ThinkPad T61P as well.<\/p>\n<p>I read through the fix and looks like there is a catch for x64 users!<\/p>\n<p>Getting your Bluetooth device using WIDCOMM 5.1 drivers and patcher requires you to select &#8220;Disable Driver Signing Enforcement&#8221; EVERY time you boot (from F8 Menu) right after your BIOS post; otherwise Windows marks the driver improper and stops it from being loaded.<\/p>\n<p>Windows with the hypervisor enabled doesn&#8217;t allow you to sleep or hibernate the laptop, so pressing F8 every time your computer boots up is a MAJOR bummer, then again at least this way you have an option! Better than nothing, eh?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Update March\/01\/09:<\/strong><\/font> Fellow MVP, <a href=\"http:\/\/sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com\/Ben\/default.aspx\">Ben Curry<\/a> pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citadel.co.nr\/download\/files\/SetupReadyDriverPlus.exe\">this<\/a> installer (Ready Driver Plus) which takes care of the manual step. It works for me! Install, reboot, and enjoy  No more driver enforcement \ud83d\ude42 . I\u2019m all for increased security (Disable Driver Signing Enforcement is NOT a good security practice ), but I guess , for now, I am going to live without it until I find a better solution. <strong>As always , please try this at your own risk!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was informed via Ishai&#8217;s blog that he has been able to find and implement the solution here to get his Bluetooth to work on Windows 2008 with hyper-V installed.\u00a0Since I only use x64 Windows Server operating systems on my laptops (for the same reasons he does), I have been desprately looking to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-t61p"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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