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    Bluetooth Devices in Vista : How to remove?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by benna, Jul 13, 2008.

  1. benna

    benna Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    Here is my laptops Computer window. You can see the bluetooth devices folder circled. Can somebody tell me how to remove it from there ? This takes away the importance of 'Computer' :p

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    How to remove ^^ that please.
     
    benna, Jul 13, 2008
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  2. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Other than removing them:
    • Start/Control Panel/BlueTooth Devices
    • Perhaps you can right-click on them from the screen you showed us
    I do not know.

    I do not think you can just "not show" devices that are connected or known to "My Computer" ... perhaps turning off BT would make them unknown until BT is turned back on?
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jul 13, 2008
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  3. benna

    benna Notebook Evangelist

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    I tried those stuff's. Is there a setting anywhere to hide this thing or not to show ot?
     
    benna, Jul 13, 2008
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  4. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    You might be able to construct an alternate shortcut in C:\Users\ username\Links and use that instead of My Computer
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jul 13, 2008
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  5. swarmer

    swarmer beep beep

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    Click on the ^ to the far right of the word "Other" above where it shows the bluetooth devices.

    EDIT: Oh, you want to keep Personal Safe though, eh? I don't know then.
     
    swarmer, Jul 13, 2008
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  6. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    That would just hide it wouldn't it?

    You would want to think this would be as easy as right clicking on each and selecting delete..but I guess that's not the case here...so maybe there's some way of getting rid of them via Control Panel, under an option like Bluetooth Devices????
     
    makaveli72, Jul 13, 2008
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  7. niGht kiD

    niGht kiD .. beach boy ♫

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    You might try navigating to the following keys to check if they are listed there, delete them if you want to remove the folder(remember to backup).
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ MyComputer \ NameSpace (I can delete my Sony Ericsson File Manager folder here)
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Desktop \ NameSpace
    Good Luck :cool:
     
    niGht kiD, Jul 13, 2008
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  8. swarmer

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    Yes. It sounds to me as if that's the OP's goal.
     
    swarmer, Jul 13, 2008
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  9. surfasb

    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    You can just turn off share and PIM interface under the Bluetooth Devices
     
    surfasb, Jul 14, 2008
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  10. shikhar.apurva

    shikhar.apurva Newbie

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    Go to Control Panel-->Bluetooth Devices...from the device list remove the device which you wanna remove from the My Computer screen. Its done.
     
    shikhar.apurva, May 19, 2009
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  11. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    Can someone confirm this please...if this solves it then i'm a genius as I don't use .Vista. :D
     
    makaveli72, May 19, 2009
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