bluetooth

If you’ve been hunting for an “Outlet Online Bluetooth Driver 5.0.1.1500.zip” package to make Bluetooth work on a Windows 7 PC with AMD hardware, pause and read this first: the file name and version you quoted — 5.0.1.1500 — is a real, widely distributed Broadcom/WIDCOMM-era driver build that...

Owners of the Bose QuietComfort 35 II who rely on the headset’s built‑in microphone have increasingly reported a puzzling and persistent problem: the QC35 II either loses its microphone entirely after newer Windows 10 updates, or Windows sees the device but captures no audio (microphone level...

Microsoft quietly rolled out a trio of dynamic updates in December 2025 that refresh the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) and related setup binaries across multiple supported Windows 11 servicing branches, delivering surgical fixes to the platform’s last‑resort recovery tooling and setup...

Bluetooth has become so central to modern PCs — powering headsets, keyboards, mice, controllers and occasional file transfers — that when Windows breaks a Bluetooth connection it stops being a minor annoyance and becomes a productivity problem; Microsoft’s own troubleshooting guidance provides a...

Bluetooth 6 is the next major Bluetooth milestone and it changes three things that matter to everyday users: much finer device positioning, meaningful audio quality and latency gains via new codecs, and lower-power, smarter device discovery — but widespread benefits will arrive only as...

If Bluetooth on your Windows 11 PC has stopped working or the Bluetooth toggle and device list have gone missing, this guide walks through every practical fix — from the quick toggles to deep system repairs — so you can restore wireless audio, mice, keyboards, and file transfers with confidence...

I added a Bluetooth toggle to my Windows 11 taskbar and wish I did sooner — and the fix is a three‑click undo to a persistent annoyance that has tripped up casual users and power users alike. Overview If you use Bluetooth headphones, mice, keyboards, phones, or game controllers, nothing beats...

Intel has quietly pushed a pair of refreshed wireless stacks — Intel Wireless Wi‑Fi driver 24.0.2 and Intel Wireless Bluetooth driver 24.0.1 — that formally add support for the company’s newest Wi‑Fi 7 modules and explicitly validate compatibility with Windows 11, version 25H2; the net result is...

A newly assigned CVE, CVE-2025-40294, identifies an out‑of‑bounds (OOB) access in the Linux kernel’s Bluetooth management path that can cause memory corruption and crashes when userland supplies overly large advertising‑pattern lengths. The defect lives in the MGMT layer’s...

A small, surgical change to the Linux Bluetooth stack closed a reproducible kernel use‑after‑free (UAF) in the SCO connection destructor — a bug that produced KASAN slab traces and host oopses and that has been tracked as CVE‑2025‑40309. The fix is narrowly scoped, straightforward to backport...

Bluetooth dropouts are rarely mysterious — they’re usually the result of one of a handful of predictable causes (power‑savings, drivers, service state, interference or profile/codec mismatches) — but fixing them reliably requires a methodical checklist, a few diagnostic commands, and awareness...

If your PC shows a Bluetooth adapter in Device Manager but refuses to pair or connect, the problem is rarely mysterious hardware failure — more often it’s a configuration, driver, service, or peripheral-side issue that can be resolved with a methodical checklist. Windows provides built‑in...

Microsoft’s official troubleshooting for a missing Bluetooth icon or a grayed‑out Bluetooth toggle in Windows is short and practical: start with the automated troubleshooter, confirm Windows isn’t blocking the radio (Airplane mode, hardware switch), update or reinstall the Bluetooth driver, and...

Updating or reinstalling a Bluetooth driver in Windows is one of the fastest, lowest‑risk ways to fix connection, pairing, detection, and audio quality problems — and it’s the first step Microsoft recommends before escalating to deeper fixes. The core process is intentionally simple: open Device...

You’re in the middle of a video conference and the room goes silent—literally—because your microphone or headset refuses to cooperate; welcome to one of the most persistent annoyances of modern remote work. Audio problems on Windows 10 and Windows 11 are startlingly common, but the root causes...

When I click on 'Add device' literally nothing happens. I bought a brand new UGreen Bluetooth 6.0 dongle from Amazon to replace my old Belkin one and it's exactly the same.

Sixteen years after it shipped, a tiny Microsoft mouse taught a large operating system a lesson about character encodings — and left a one‑line compatibility hack buried in Windows’ Bluetooth stack to prove it. Background In 2006 Microsoft released the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse...

Windows 11 is quietly testing a long‑requested capability: a native, system‑level “shared audio” feature that can stream the same Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio feed to two headphones, earbuds, speakers, or hearing aids at once — surfaced as a Quick Settings tile in Insider preview builds and...

Windows 11’s latest Insider preview quietly starts a small but meaningful change to how PCs share sound: a new Shared audio (preview) experience built on Bluetooth LE Audio that lets a Copilot+ PC stream the same audio to two separate headsets, earbuds, speakers, or hearing aids at once. The...

Troubleshoot Bluetooth Audio Dropouts in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 15 minutes Bluetooth audio dropouts can ruin music, calls, and videos. With a few quick checks and fixes, you can usually restore reliable wireless sound on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. This guide...