Windows 10: Accidently Uninstalled Bluetooth Driver on Dell Laptop?

Hi! I think I've made a very silly mistake, these past few days my bluetooth headphones kept disconnecting and bluetooth on the actual computer Dell Inspiron 15 3515 itself would sort of disappear, I knew it couldn't be the headphones themselves as they connected perfectly fine to my phone and beforehand also connected perfectly fine to the laptop before this. After some searching on the internet I was able to find it in hidden devices and would get the error code 45. After not really looking at what I was clicking I ended up I'm assuming deleting the driver entirely. Even through troubles

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How do you uninstall chipset drivers?

I'm installing a new mobo so I need to uninstall the intel 865g drivers to make way for the P35 drivers.

Can't find any uninstall options in add/remove programs and intel chipset inst listed in driver cleaner.

Any suggestions? *Confused

 

Cannot reconnect bluetooth mouse after laptop wakes from being idle

Hi,

Thanks for the reply and appreciate your efforts to work on this issue.

Suggest you to uninstall and reinstall the Bluetooth driver to check if that helps.

Download the latest driver from the Dell website and save it on the desktop.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/xps-15-9570-laptop/drivers

Note: Since the websites are not hosted by Microsoft, the links may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.

You can also run the
Bluetooth troubleshooter to check if that helps.

Steps to uninstall the drivers:

1. Open Device Manager,
   
2. Expand Bluetooth driver.
   
3. Right-click (or tap and hold) the Bluetooth driver and select Uninstall.
   
4. Follow the on-screen steps to complete the uninstallation.
   
5. Once the driver is removed, install the driver that you would have previously saved and then finally restart the computer.
   

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Srimadhwa B

Microsoft Community-Moderator

 

Bluetooth is not working — troubleshoot claims I don't even have it

I have done all the following steps:

- installed bluetooth driver from manufacturer
- hit windows update
- updated / uninstalled bluetooth items listed in Device Manager and restarted the PC
- updated / uninstalled USB drivers listed in Device Manager and restarted the PC (USB drivers automatically came back but not bluetooth)
- turned on and restarted all bluetooth support in services.msc
- conducted bluetooth troubleshooting
- conducted hardware troubleshooting