I've installed the dongle for him by going to the manufacturer's site (in this case ), and downloaded the latest drivers and it was working.
It did come with a driver CD, but this one didn't work on 7 either. My brother is on windows 7 as well and has a bluetooth dongle which used to work on vista, but doesn't automatically work on 7. Services can be found by typing services in search. Thanks!After you install a driver that you think is good (check device manager), make sure that bluetooth (in services) is set to automatic. I've tried to install the generic bluetooth driver and that didn't work either. If someone can direct me to find a driver for this it would help greatly. Install generic Microsoft driver for your Bluetooth adapter. Bluetooth driver windows 7 free download free download - Bluetooth Driver Ver.5.zip. If you are in Windows 7 and Windows 8 and you need to run this Bluetooth driver then you will need to run the driver in Windows compatibility mode as shown below. Note that this is a driver from Acer which works on other devices as well as the hardware is the same. Note this driver will work on most Windows operating systems.
I can't figure out how to get it working with a driver, I never had a install cd or anything vista and xp ran it fine. Have you looked here: Click the Start button and type Device manager Look for yellow exclamation points, specifically for your bluetooth dongle? My bluetooth dongle isn't working in Windows 7, it worked perfectly fine in vista, in which it worked fine.
Thanks!Hello oneton95, and welcome to Windows Seven Forums. My bluetooth dongle isn't working in Windows 7, it worked perfectly fine in vista, in which it worked fine.