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I just managed to get my little Motorola HS820 working as a headset on my desktop PC. This O’Reilly article on Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP was helpful – although I didn’t have to install new drivers, the step-by-step was useful, and once I switched over the audio in/out devices in the Control Panel, system sounds, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, and MSN Messenger all work fine over Bluetooth. Sweet!

For some reason I still haven’t been able to make it work on my little Thinkpad X40, probably because it’s running SP1 & a different BT stack…

3 Responses to “Bluetooth headset on Windows XP”

  1. Mali says:

    Hello
    Can you please help me, I also followed the steps in this website to set up
    my bluetooth device to be used as Mic and speaker,
    It is not working and I dont know why
    first i heard a beeb coming out of the headsit.
    I pressed the answer button and it stoppped beating
    I setup the system sound control tried msn testing wizard,
    but still no sound coming in or out of the bluetooth headsit.
    can you please help me .
    Thank you waiting your answer..

    my email m_abuzeineh@hotmail.com
    Thanks
    Mali

  2. juan manuel says:

    i also can’t do it! can you please give me more instructions.

    I will really appreciate it

    Thanks in advance..

    Juan

  3. Claudiu Ivanescu says:

    Dear Bowen,

    That article is very cool, but…

    It have a big problem, the manufacturer of the bluetooth headset have to provide the drivers.

    For example i don’t have the drivers for my headset, and don’t know what should i use instead.

    Bye,
    Claudiu

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