Bluetooth In A Win 7 Multi-boot Environment
I have a multi-boot environment with a bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse.Windows 7 does not allow you to pair the keyboard and the mouse in multiple environments with the same pairing code.I used to be able to do this with Windows XP and Windows Vista.The only solution that I can identify is to either:Re-pair the mouse and keyboard every time you change your bootup session choice. or Use multiple keyboards and mice... one keyboard and mouse for each boot environment...
seperately paired.You used to be able to disable the pairing code requirement for a deviceor Manually specify the pairing code used on both sides of the pairingYou cannot do this in Windows 7... or if you can I have not found out how to do it.Do you know of a way to use a single bluetooth keyboard and mouse in a multi-boot environment? orDo you know when Microsoft will correct their bluetooth drivers to allow this (like they used to)?
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