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Bluetooth and Windows 7 (64bit)

I wanted to pair my Iphone 4 Bluetooth with my Notebook (Windows 7-64) and got and the installation is incomplete. 1 of 3 drivers did not seem to install and I had the error message "Bluetooth peripheral device" driver not found. I tried the Windows function "Repair", but no success.
Anyone has an idea how to proceed further?

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Posted on Oct 2, 2010 2:24 AM

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Aug 20, 2011 2:01 PM in response to JGL51

There is a fix; I finally discovered how to clear the Windows 7 x64 Device Manager warning of a missing Bluetooth Peripheral Device.
Thinking Boot Camp 4.0 would correct this, I installed it today only to have the warning remain.
The Bluetooth company called Broadcom (you notice the reference during the installation of Boot Camp) offers a BlueTooth "device finder" (my phraseology) that detects all BlueTooth device in your Apple or PC in a Windows 7, Vista, XP and even 2000 operating system.
So download the 3 MB file, from Broadcom.com. While your BlueTooth equipment is plugged in to the computer, run the program. The program searches for any BlueTooth peripheral equipment activated and BlueTooth devices that makeup you MacBook Pro, or other Apple computer having a Windows OS installed. It then downloads the appropriate software.
This is the company’s URL address:

http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php


In my case, I ran the program, rebooted my MacBook Pro (with Boot Camp 4.0 already installed) and the missing BlueTooth peripheral device indicator was eliminated.

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Feb 16, 2017 12:39 PM in response to Jonnyskray

The real correct answer is to download broadcom bluetooth system driver for you windows on macbook. When you go to the broadcom driver site it doesnt show the drivers anymore so the new page to get the drivers are here:

32 bit: http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BLUETOOTH/Broadcom/Broadcom-WIDCOMM-Bluetooth-D river-6516930-for-Vista-Windows-7.shtml

64 bit: http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BLUETOOTH/Broadcom/Broadcom-WIDCOMM-Bluetooth-D river-6516930-for-Vista-Windows-7-64-bit…


This is ONLY for window VISTA and 7.

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Feb 16, 2017 6:06 PM in response to mbran136

If non of this works you can alway type WIDCOMM BLUETOOTH SOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 64 BIT and just download the drivers from one of the popular computer brands and that should work like hp dell or lenovo. I know for sure that lenovo drivers work on windows for mac. So hopfully this helps out if you have any question feel free to contact apple support and refer them what mbran136 said on this page. I really hope that this helps someone out. I would like to someday work for a computer company and help just responding to questions like this......

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Aug 20, 2011 2:01 PM in response to Jonnyskray

There is a fix; I finally discovered how to clear the Windows 7 x64 Device Manager warning of a missing Bluetooth Peripheral Device.
Thinking Boot Camp 4.0 would correct this, I installed it today only to have the warning remain.
The Bluetooth company called Broadcom (you notice the reference during the installation of Boot Camp) offers a BlueTooth "device finder" (my phraseology) that detects all BlueTooth device in your Apple or PC in a Windows 7, Vista, XP and even 2000 operating system.
So download the 3 MB file, from Broadcom.com. While your BlueTooth equipment is plugged in to the computer, run the program. The program searches for any BlueTooth peripheral equipment activated and BlueTooth devices that makeup you MacBook Pro, or other Apple computer having a Windows OS installed. It then downloads the appropriate software.
This is the company’s URL address:

http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php


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