lost Bluetooth on Opera 9.63 removal from Vista

To clean up in preparation for Opera 9.64, I removed
Opera 9.63 from my Dell laptop using Vista's uninstall app.
That killed Bluetooth (which I use for the mouse). I re-
booted Vista, still no Bluetooth - no icon, no mouse function.
No amount of fiddling with the Bluetooth GUI would bring
it back.

Then I booted up Ubuntu and Bluetooth did not come up.
Then I used the command line ` sudo hidd --search`, and
Bluetooth connected with the mouse. Then I booted up
Vista, and the Bluetooth icon was there and Bluetooth
connected with the mouse. It's like the Bluetooth chip didn't
like something about the Vista Opera uninstall, and only
Ubuntu knew how to soothe it. Weird.

*TimDaniels*

on Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:20:26 -0800, Timothy Daniels wrote:

> Then I booted up Ubuntu and Bluetooth did not come up.
> Then I used the command line ` sudo hidd --search`, and
> Bluetooth connected with the mouse. Then I booted up
> Vista, and the Bluetooth icon was there and Bluetooth
> connected with the mouse. It's like the Bluetooth chip didn't
> like something about the Vista Opera uninstall, and only
> Ubuntu knew how to soothe it. Weird.

Do you have an on/off switch for bluetooth (most laptops have it, though
it's sometimes activated through a Fn combination). Have you tried toggling
it?

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