Vista - Unable to connect bluetooth

For some reason I can't connect via bluetooth. I have done previously and checked all the obvious but my PC wont receive a file. My mobile says trying to connect, then connects and then immediately disconnects.

any ideas
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  • Try right clicking on the bluetooth icon on your system tray bottom right hand corner and clicking prepare to accept files or something along those lines. I had the same problem and found that this sorted
  • jasmin10
    jasmin10 Posts: 905 Forumite
    My Bluetooth Icon keeps disappearing. You know the usual glitch that quite a few of us have with Vista. Anyway. If I double click the Bluetooth Wizard and then to receive the file it says that is is waiting for the file to be sent and stays like that. But when I turn my mobile on to send the file it connects and then disconnects or just says sending failed, yet my pc is still in the state waiting to receive.
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  • chuckles1066
    chuckles1066 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
    What I found was that, by default, the Vista Bluetooth software pops up an "accept file?" dialogue box but *behind* anything else that's open!

    Meanwhile, I'm sat there waiting for something to happen and, of course, the transfer times out because I wasn't aware the pop-up was waiting for me to click "accept" :o

    Try minimising all your windows so that just the desktop is showing and then try transferring.
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  • jasmin10
    jasmin10 Posts: 905 Forumite
    thanks for your help but it hasn' worked. I guess it's just one of those bugs or something.
    :confused:
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