Any cheap BT USB dongles with XP SP2 driver support?

Looking for a UK seller of XP SP2 Bluetooth dongles. It absolutly must
support the signed XPSP2 drivers and stack.. Most use Widcomm it seems.

Looking at the slew of £8 dongles on ebay, it's impossible to tell..

Anyone know of one that is confirmed to work?

Thanks.

Black Shuck wrote:

> Looking for a UK seller of XP SP2 Bluetooth dongles. It absolutly must
> support the signed XPSP2 drivers and stack.. Most use Widcomm it seems.

Why not Widcom? It does work with XP SP2. The only thing is that, after XP
installs its own drivers, you need to uninstall them & force XP to install
the ones that come with the dongle. It should work after that. At least
it did for the person who gave me the info in the Motorola NG, using the
DLink dongle. And the procedure worked for my Targus branded Widcom. It
does just fine with my Palm & my V551.

> Anyone know of one that is confirmed to work?

See above.

Bill K

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:59:03 +0100, Bill Kraski
<Bill.Kraski.NoSpam@verizon.invalid> wrote:

> Black Shuck wrote:
>
>> Looking for a UK seller of XP SP2 Bluetooth dongles. It absolutly must
>> support the signed XPSP2 drivers and stack.. Most use Widcomm it seems.
>
> Why not Widcom? It does work with XP SP2. The only thing is that,
> after XP
> installs its own drivers, you need to uninstall them & force XP to
> install
> the ones that come with the dongle. It should work after that. At least
> it did for the person who gave me the info in the Motorola NG, using the
> DLink dongle. And the procedure worked for my Targus branded Widcom. It
> does just fine with my Palm & my V551.
>
>> Anyone know of one that is confirmed to work?
>
> See above.
>
> Bill K


I don't want the hassle of Widcom, on whichever PC I plug the dongle
into. The install takes forever. I simply want to "Plug and Go"...

So question remains....

Belkin - PC World - £15 - 'Plug & Go' with SP2

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jel183(UK)


"Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
newsp.svy12ymfmmxwtf@xpdesktop...
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:59:03 +0100, Bill Kraski
> <Bill.Kraski.NoSpam@verizon.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Black Shuck wrote:
>>
>>> Looking for a UK seller of XP SP2 Bluetooth dongles. It absolutly must
>>> support the signed XPSP2 drivers and stack.. Most use Widcomm it seems.
>>
>> Why not Widcom? It does work with XP SP2. The only thing is that,
>> after XP
>> installs its own drivers, you need to uninstall them & force XP to
>> install
>> the ones that come with the dongle. It should work after that. At least
>> it did for the person who gave me the info in the Motorola NG, using the
>> DLink dongle. And the procedure worked for my Targus branded Widcom. It
>> does just fine with my Palm & my V551.
>>
>>> Anyone know of one that is confirmed to work?
>>
>> See above.
>>
>> Bill K
>
>
> I don't want the hassle of Widcom, on whichever PC I plug the dongle
> into. The install takes forever. I simply want to "Plug and Go"...
>
> So question remains....

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:41:56 +0100, jel183(UK) <nospam@myhome.com> wrote:

> Belkin - PC World - £15 - 'Plug & Go' with SP2
>


Cheers, Argos do them also £15.

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...clickfrom=name

Works with standard Microsoft Bluetooth stack on both XP and XP x64
edition. I believe that the Microsoft stack is not as feature complete as
the Widcomm one, but having x64 and not having to mess around with
horrible widcom installs and unsigned drivers is a major plus for me..