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    How do you...turn OFF the bluetooth on R3?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Le0-, May 4, 2011.

  1. Le0-

    Le0- Notebook Evangelist

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    hey fellas.
    I know this has been mentioned somewhere, but the search cannot do it for me and its not on first 10 pages so I got bored of scrolling and decided to ask again, basically the question is outlined in the title :)
    Thanks!
    btw: lemme know if someone is interested in my thoughts of owning R3 after R2 (got replacement), I could post a short review of stuff I think is different in significance in machines.
    So far it works like 5 hours on integrated graphics with wi-fi on and 2gb of ram + 8% cpu usage i think i could get less if i knew how to turn that thing off
     
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    bios
    network or connectivity or something...one of the menus further right
    set bluetooth to off
    F10 + enter
     
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  3. Le0-

    Le0- Notebook Evangelist

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    nono i meant if is there a way to actually do that running windows?
    for an example i had a switcher on my old HP that had BT + WIFI so i could turn it off and on while the machine was working. something like that... prolly some software solution?
     
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    No
    10chaaaaar
     
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    right my last shot :p
    what if i open device manager find bluetooth there and disable it?
     
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    Yes that works
    ...and I can't get it to show up in windows anymore lol
     
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    try selecting your PC's name in the manager, right click, scan for hardware changes... works?
     
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    I have a Bluetooth icon in my systray, when I right click on it there is an option that says "Turn off adapter". I have only installed the Dell provided Widcomm driver set on my new build.
     
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    Thank you very much. I just realized I had an outdated version installed. got new one from Dell's website and now I also have that feature. it was weird i couldn't just use soft to turn bt off...
    + rep
     
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