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    Program to control WiFi and bluetooth on/off

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Ungjaevel, Sep 12, 2009.

  1. Ungjaevel

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    None that I know of off the top of my head. I believe turning the actual bluetooth radio on and off is hardware dependent. Your device driver has to support it. And not all bluetooth radios support on/off by demand.

    Wifi is the same. Not all device drivers support on/off by demand. I know the Dells turn their bluetooth/wifis through a hardware switch that is supported by their BIOS.
     
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    Ungjaevel Notebook Consultant

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    I'm used to AlienWare, which have buttons on the notebook with BT and WIFI on/off. Very, very pleasant. Hmm... anyone else?
     
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    You can just turn them off through device manager. Just disable them.
     
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    Yeah yeah I know.

    But I want/would like a sweet 'lil program that does this for me, with a simple click.
     
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    You can probably make a batch script to toggle your devices on or off. You'll definetly need the device id for your device which you can get in device manager. I don't have time to give you the detail, but i'm sure it's easily doable.
     
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    Device manager is an MMC snap -in. For a command line equivalent.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

    You gotta download Devcon.exe
     
    surfasb, Sep 13, 2009
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  8. Ungjaevel

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    Devcon, released in 2003, not compatible with W7U x64... :(
     
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    As much as I love playing 20 questions, how about posting the laptop model and the operating system on the laptop?
     
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    if i'm not mistaken devcon is included with the x64 version of windows xp or windows 2003 in the installer cd, in the support tools or so.

    in any case, why can't microsoft just include a switch on their bluetooth icon to simply turn off or on the bluetooth radio and include an option to have it automatically turn off when on battery in the power options (of course thats up to user discretion but the option to have it do so would have been nice).
     
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    kegobeer; Uh sorry thought I did. Macbook Air rev. C 2,13hz C2D, Win 7 Ultimate x64

    gekk_gad: I agree. Why why why? (Will look for devcon.exe on cd..)
     
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    You can look at his sig.
     
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    it makes things standard, rather than having multiple ways of doing the same thing that consumers will want to do, microsoft could standardize the experience. isnt this the point of having the "windows mobility center"?
     
    gekk_gad, Sep 15, 2009
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