How do i disable bluetooth in windows xp

There may be a registry entry that can be modified to disable it but I have not had the time to search for it yet. Until Toshiba updates the software to allow disabling the icon, there is not much you can do.

Inspiron XPS 3. Thank you for the reply. I would like to know how Dell installs the drivers then as this is not a problem with the factory install. Also, I have noticed that I lose all bluetooth connectivity when coming out of stand-by. This never happened with the factory install of the drivers. How about it Dell, what's the answer? I too am curious. I hate icons on my desktop and that one is ridiculous since I don't really need it.

Post Reply. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by Gabriele. Spazzi Solved. How to turn Bluetooth on XPS? I don't think the bluetooth on my Dell XPs 15 is turned on. I can't see a 'switch'to turn it on in the Windows 10 settings page 'bluetooth and other devices' Solved! All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions. Community Accepted Solution.

Replies 2. Active 11 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 1k times. I'm trying to write a program to disable the Bluetooth service on computers so, forbid users from connecting to Internet via Bluetooth I've tried following methods: Disable the "bthserv" service Bluetooth Support Service.

I wanted to disable with netsh. Any ideas? Improve this question. Mehdi Asgari Mehdi Asgari 2, 3 3 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. MSalters MSalters k 8 8 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Because there are tens of computers that I want install this program on them and they already have Bluetooth installed I want users just use the LAN to use Internet, not Bluetooth.

And they don't have Wireless equipments — Mehdi Asgari. By the way, how can I programmatically ban users from adding any Network adapters?