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    Accidentally started to uninstall Bluetooth

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by slowlydrifting, Oct 9, 2006.

  1. slowlydrifting

    slowlydrifting Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was playing around on my SZ260 and was trying to remove all the pesky AOL bloatware. When I was doing so, I accidentally clicked on the Toshiba Bluetooth device in the Add/Remove programs section. It started to uninstall but I cancelled it. I noticed that after this my Bluetooth light was no longer on but I was still able to enable Bluetooth afterward. Do I have any reason to be concerned? Do I need to do any recovery, or am I okay since I cancelled the uninstallation process?

    Also, I may be wrong but I thought before that when my Wireless was enabled the Bluetooth was automatically unenabled but I noticed it isn't now - is this due to my accidentally starting to uninstall, and if so how can I fix this?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    slowlydrifting, Oct 9, 2006
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  2. mach_zero

    mach_zero Casual Observer NBR Reviewer

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    Bluetooth (at least on my SZ120) has to be enabled/disabled manually. If you double click on the little green square that says "LAN" in the system tray it shoud come up with a dialog box that allows you to turn it on and off. You can certainly have wireless lan and bluetooth enabled at the same time.
     
    mach_zero, Oct 9, 2006
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