Help with Wireless Bluetooth problems and other questions!

First of all I would like to thank the people that helped me with the AHCI driver for my reinstallation, and the people that made the bloatware removal guide, I got rid of 30 processes(75 to 45!) after my clean reinstallation. However now I have a couple more questions/problems.

Now on to my problem. So for my recently purchased XPS M1530 I ordered the built in bluetooth, and the wireless keyboard and mouse setup. I installed the bluetooth driver that came with the keyboard and mouse, and they worked. However once I shut down my laptop and booted up, the mouse and keyboard would not respond, I went to the bluetooth menu that showes the bluetooth devices, and the mouse wasn't even on there anymore. The keyboard was, but the only way I could get them to work was to re-add them all over again. Does anyone know why this is happening? Should I reinstall the drivers and try again from scratch or what?

I also have a concern with my harddrive. I have 160gb total storage, and I'm aware that the computer takes some for itself, so my C drive started at 145 and I wasn't worried. But now 2 days later I have already used up 8-21 gb on my drive, and I cant fathom to what it is. The only thing I have done is install drivers, 3dmark06/webcam/firefox/AVG/Ad-aware/startup inspector for windows, and a couple small things. I have not installed any one thing that is over 1 gig, and if I add up all the small things it goes to 4-5 gigs, no where near what my laptop claims what is used up, does anyone have experience with this? I have not installed any games. I first used IE, but switched to Firefox pretty quickly after the reinstalation.

Now a question. What are the recommended free virus protection/scanning/spywear programs out there? I got McAfee free with the laptop, but apparently it's slow and doesn't work to well. Should I use it for free? Right now I have Ad-Aware and AVG installed on my computer

 

Sorry for bumping but this has hit the 2nd page without a single response, could anyone give me help or point me in the right direction on any of these 3 items?

 

dont no if this will help or not but there is a dell patch for bluetooth. i had to use it to get my bluetooth to even show up after a clean install of vista.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=213714

patch needs to be installed fisrt so remove your BT do patch and reinstall BT software hope this helps.

 

Thank you for the link, the mouse is working now, but I'm still having trouble with the key board! Can anyone else help with the other problems/questions?