Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tech-torial for you.
This time I'm going to show you, how to find out if you have Bluetooth on your computer.
I'm also going to show you an easy solution to get Bluetooth on your computer if you don't
already have it, as well as how to install a Bluetooth device.
Coming up...
First off you might ask, do I even need Bluetooth on my computer?
And the quick answer is no.
Every device that is available out there, has a wireless option available.
You might be considering a Bluetooth headset for example like this one here.
This is a high end wireless headset, so it doesn't need to be Bluetooth in order to not have cables.
I have a link to my Amazon affiliate store in the description below, incase you're interested
in looking at this particular one here.
So how do you know if you have Bluetooth on your computer?
There's two different ways of looking at it.
The first section on your computer, if you look down in the bottom right under the notifications section
click on that little bubble.
There's a bunch of things here, and one of them will have the Bluetooth symbol, and it
may or may not be lit up.
It'll show if it's connected or not, if there's any devices, it'll say if it's on or off when you click on it.
It's on and it's highlighted, and you click again and it's greyed out like many of the
other things here.
So this way you'll be able to tell if you have Bluetooth.
If you don't see that icon with the symbol, in this area of the screen, then you do not
have Bluetooth most likely.
But let's check another area, because maybe it's just disabled or some other issue happening.
The other area to check is in the device manager.
So you can right click on the start button and go to Device Manager.
The just one of many ways of getting to it.
The first most obvious thing here is there is a category called BlueTooth.
So you should see that there.
If you expand it you may see several options in there, but don't worry about it.
You can just ignore that.
They are just a bunch of protocols in how it works.
But the important thing for you, is that if you see the Bluetooth category here, then you have it.
If you don't have that category, you may not have Bluetooth, but lets look further.
Under Network Adapters, you may need to expand that to open it, and mines expanded already
just because I have a device that is disabled.
But ignoring that, here is a device driver for the network called Bluetooth.
So, it is there.
That might have a problem for you which could explain why you may not have the Bluetooth category.
But if you do see Bluetooth anywhere in here, then you know you have Bluetooth and you can
actually make use of any Bluetooth device.
So what if you don't have Bluetooth on your computer?
You can easily add a Bluetooth adapter to your computer, such as this one here, that
just plugs into a USB port on your computer, and provides Bluetooth ability.
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It will install on Windows automatically, so there's no complicated setup, no disks
or downloads required usually.
So if you want to know how to install a Bluetooth device, I'm going to show you that now.
Through your start button under settings, you go up to devices, and then Bluetooth over
here, which you may not need to click on because it's the first item in the list.
Which you can see up here it says Bluetooth and other devices.
So you may have already figured out, we want to click on Add a Bluetooth device, and then
choose Bluetooth from here, and now it will start searching for any Bluetooth device that
you have near you.
As long as it's turned on and set in discoverable mode, which it says here, then it will show
up in the list for you to select and then enter the code, so that the codes match between
the computer and that device for them to sync up properly.
If you're not sure how to set your Bluetooth device into discovery mode, then you need
to lookup the instructions for that particular device, because each Bluetooth device has
a specific set of instructions on how to put it into discoverable mode.
So a quick Google search will be able to tell you exactly how to do that for your device.
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