Vaio C1S/W Upgraded to Vista Premium problems with Bluetooth

[SifuMel]

Hi All Vaio Users,
Never posted to a forum before - although "trawled" many for some good answers to my problems.
Hope someone can help me here.
I upgraded from Windows MCE to Vista by formatting the HD and clean install. I have had a dual boot Desktop XP/Vista for some time so I new what to expect from Vista lol.
Apart from some of the Sony niceities with the help of the forum I got everything I need up and running.
But the Vista Toshiba Bluetooth driver I downloaded from Sony works great - but is a demo? and will expire. This question was asked on this forum but I could not find a reply - did anyone get an answer?
I stupidly deleted it (uninstalled) and tried the XP version from my recovery DVD but that just hangs half way and does nothing else. I've done a restore to the original Vista install and tried again but it still hangs. I cannot get Microsoft Bluetooth to work.
It's frustrating because the Toshiba software works a treat with my bluetooth dongle which has been problematic on other machines and other OS's. I would like to get the Toshiba stack working and not have it expire.
Sorry this is long winded and I don't know how to jazz it up with logo's and "art" but I'm just a PC user not a techno. (that's a compliment).

Give a man a fish and he feeds himself for a day. Teach a man to fish and he disappears every weekend!

[Blencogo]

Hi Sifu Mel and welcome to Club Vaio.

Did you actually have this working in MCE? The reason I ask is because none of the specification lists I can find for the C1S mentions anything about having Bluetooth hardware installed.

The C1Z/B has Bluetooth but I don't think any of the C1S series of Vaios do!

[SifuMel]

Hi Blencogo,
Thanks for the quick post!
It was working in MCE and Vista - although it is a USB Bluetooth dongle from MSI.
The Toshiba stack software (downloaded from the Sony Vista upgrade site for the C1S/W) worked well but expires in 30 days.
Tried to install the Toshiba software from recovery DVD thinking it did not have an expiry date but is not compatible with Vista. Thats when my problems started.
Also tried the generic/microsoft/MSI drivers that came with Vista but they do not work either.
If alternative software available that does the same as the Toshiba I'd try it but my searches dont come up with anything.
Thanks for your time looking into this.

[Thalamus.]

Hi Sifu Mel

Have you tried downloading the WIDCOMM Bluetooth Dongle Driver for Windows Vista from the MSI site ..?

[SifuMel]

Hi Thalamus,
After I uninstalled the Toshiba software and had problems with the recovery file version I did go to the MSI website. My dongle is not listed as compatible with Vista, but I tried both the XP SP2 version and the Vista 32bit version. Each time doing a clean recovery so as to hopefully avoid any stray registry entries remaining. Both attempts came up with "not compatible".
The good news is my bluetooth dongle is now working - but I dont know how!
Two devices are in the bluetooth devices menu, Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator and Bluetooth Devices.
The Microsoft device has a driver bthenum.sys 6.0.6000.16386.
The Bluetooth device has four files.
bthport.sys, BTHUSB.SYS, n558.sys(signed WayTech), and fsquirt.sys.
My Logitech V270 mouse now connects at startup and works perfectly. Although the trackpad is still active and does cause problems when I type - heavy handed I guess.
I haven't tried pairing my PDA yet although it worked perfectly with the Toshiba software.
I will copy the installed files to a CD just in case I need to reinstall Vista lol.
Thanks for your direction.