what does a bluetooth license failure mean?

I have a X-200 XP SP3 and a Lenovo BT mouse...both have been working perfectly until last night when I got a pop-up message stating:

"Bluetooth License Check Failed
Please make sure the BT device is plugged in/turned on, the device you are using is licensed for this software and that your license has not expired"

I have no idea what this is about. There were no licenses involved. The X-200 BT is built in and the mouse worked out of the box without needing any other drivers other than what was installed in the as-delivered system.

What license are they talking about?

Right now the BT light is off and the two are not communicating with each other. I have rebooted several times and replaced the mouse's batteries.


Anyone have an idea what this is about?

thanks for any feedbank.

 

This is the only info I could find in another forum. Probably you need to uninstall/ reinstall your BT drivers, with the date set correctly, and take the batteries out of the BT device, and reinstall. Hope this helps...

I had that problem too, problem is you turned wireless on before you set date and time. you will have to hard-reset the device and set date and time BEFORE you power wireless on.

 

Thanks...I tried several things along these lines and nothing worked. Since I had a recent image of my hard drive I just restored the system and everything is back to normal. However, I would really like to understand the root cause of this kind of failure if anyone could shed any light on the subject. In reading several references from a google search the main suspect seems to be that the BT gets out of sync with the date but that doesn't make any sense to me, especillay after I tried many times to fix it by resetting the date and turning off the mouse and X200 BT in various combinations. Neither does it make sense that it would just stop working in the middle of doing something on the laptop - it just popped out of the blue?

Any bluetooth experts out there?