====== Making crappy USB Bluetooth dongles work with the native Windows XP stack ======


From [[http://belthur.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-native-xp-bluetooth-stack-for.html|here]]. Works on [[http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11866|these knock-off mini-dongles]] from [[http://www.dealextreme.com/|DealExtreme]].  If you have this exact dongle, you can skip all this and just use [[http://dsss.be/f/dat/bth.inf|my hacked INF]].

  * Insert crappy dongle.  
  * Skip the drivers.  
  * Open the device in device manager.
  * In the Details tab, select "Hardware ids", and select the entry that has the Vid and Pid only -- the one that looks most like "''USB\Vid_1131&Pid_1004''".  Press Ctrl-C to copy this entry to clipboard.  Save it for later.
  * Copy the file "''%windir%\inf\bth.inf''" to another directory.
  * Open the copy in an editor (e.g. notepad), and find the "''[Cambridge.NT.5.1]''" section.
  * Add the line "''My wacky dongle=BthUsb, **USB\Vid_1131&Pid_1004**''", except replace the bolded part with the string you copied earlier.  You can change the name to whatever you like.  Save the file.
  * In the device properties, click "Update driver" or "Install driver".
  * Choose advanced, and specify the path to the "''bth.inf''" file we just edited.
  * Your dongle should be recognized as "My wacky dongle" or whatever you named it, and work with the standard XP bluetooth stack.