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Sep 30, 2005 | 5:05 pm

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Originally Posted by Around The World And To The Beach

I am using an IBM T40 laptop with built-in bluetooth. I actually downloaded the Widcomm bluetooth stack with some patches, but it seems like the IBM/Microsoft bluetooth software keeps re-installing itself even after I uninstall it and I cannot use the Widcomm instead (XP SP2). I live in Germany.

For all IBM T40, T41, etc. laptop users with XP SP2, the solution is to go to this link and exactly follow the instructions:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...cid=MIGR-50245

Nothing else will work...none of the standard tricks for disabling the Microsoft Bluetooth stack (very nicely described for instance in http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=10822 and http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php...r=asc&start=0), neither does buying an external dongle and installing their software over the MS stack and trying to prevent the MS stack from re-installing itself do the trick.

However, going to the IBM link, downloading the software and following the instructions will make it work.

Currently using Skype with a Logitech Mobile Pro Headset on an IBM T40 with XP SP2.

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