Using the Default Bluetooth Manager with Toshiba Laptop

[pyromaster114]

I have a Toshiba M700 laptop, running Windows Vista ultimate.
It has an internal bluetooth adapter. The bluetooth manager software that installs along with the drivers from Toshiba's website sucks. It causes a lot of little annoying problems, some of which you can't get around at all.

For this reason, I wish to use a different bluetooth manager program.
I'm not sure if Vista really has a default program, but my other 2 computers that have bluetooth seem to use the same, less annoying, bluetooth manager program.

Sorry if I'm being ignorant, but I'm not well acquainted with bluetooth yet.

 

[Tmagic650]

"Sorry if I'm being ignorant, but I'm not well acquainted with bluetooth yet"...

This may be the root cause of your Bluetooth problem...

"It causes a lot of little annoying problems, some of which you can't get around at all"...

Can you explain in a little more detail just what are the problems

 

[pyromaster114]

First, I'm not THAT uneducated about bluetooth, and I am certain I am using the software correctly.

The specific problem that I have with the toshiba bluetooth manager software is that it prevents connection to any audio gateway or audio sink device that is not compliant with some sort of DRM/copyright protection.
Specifically, I have a bluetooth headset. I like to use this when playing games, listening to music, etc.
I have a lot of games that require the non-unicode language setting to be Japanese.
When I set it like that, the bluetooth manager picks up on that and determines that the headset is not DRM/copyright protection compliant. (If the non-unicode language is set back to English, the headset connects just fine.)

The other computers don't seem to have this problem. I have posted here before trying to see if anyone had a way to make that bluetooth manager (the toshiba one) work, but no one had any success.

 

[Tmagic650]

"Sorry if I'm being ignorant, but I'm not well acquainted with bluetooth yet"...

You said this, I didn't... Bluetooth capable, means just that. So your native language is not English? I've only delt with Blutooth devices on non-computer applications like studio/stage live audio. I have installed Bluetooth adapters in Laptops, but I have never worked with them. My customers haven't complained about having Bluetooth issues

 

[pyromaster114]

*pokes topic* anyone know about switching what bluetooth manager / bluetooth stack you are using on a computer?

I've seen others claim to have done it... they said that they tried a widcom (sp?) driver or something instead of the manufacturer supplied drivers. I'm still trying to look into this, because right now I'm using a virtual machine to bypass the problem, and that's quite annoying and has obvious issues.

Anyways, I'll certainly post back if I find anything that works.

(P.S. Tmagic650, my native language is English... but that's not to say that it's the only language I care know. At this point I'm still working on learning the written language for Japanese, and the computer throwing a fit every time I try and use a program that's in Japanese doesn't help lol)