Question:
SZ2XP, Vista & Wireless Switch Utility - Bluetooth Missing
Strange one this. Switcher.exe used to allow me to disable Bluetooth on this sz2xp. Now that option is completely missing from the utility - any ideas ?
Have tried re-install, same issue. This is version 3.5
Ian
Answer:
Re: SZ2XP, Vista & Wireless Switch Utility - Bluetooth Missing
I have had the same problem come up with my SZ1. No BTselection at all, even though it has been there for ever since I bought this laptop. But other possibly related problem is that I cannot use VAIO Control Center. I wrote this as a reply at Vaio forum in a thread about this issue:
Today, exactly the same thing happened to my SZ-1. Bluetooth selection is not available anymore in the Wireless Device Switch tool, and also VAIO control centre fails to start with runtime error.
WDS has been working perfectly for BT so far, I didn't install any sw before before this happened. But just before this started to happen, I had to power down my laptop via long power key press, because Vista was stuck at shutdown screen. So maybe something went bad there, although I have had to do same powering down before too, and no problems has risen.
I have reinstalled WDS, control centre and bluetooth drivers, no help here. Bluetooth is constantly on now, and it is actually working too. But I'd really like to disable it when I do not use it, and now it is not possible. Of course it can be done via device manager, but that is not very fast nor nice.
After this I did some more experimenting, and found this:
I found out that control center gives runtime error when I try to run it from my administrator account, but when I use other standard account, it is working fine.
I wanted to check if wireless device switch is working too with standard account, but it does not start up at all. Not even when trying to run it as administrator.
I have not found any solution yet, hopefully someone here is able to help. I am running Vista Business.
Answer:
Re: SZ2XP, Vista & Wireless Switch Utility - Bluetooth Missing
Ah, ok, well spotted, getting the same error in Vaio Control Centre as well..