BT Dongle recognised as USB Composite Device (XP Home)?

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In article <1115593394.066084.205660@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
<brianbasquille@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>First post here so greetings!!
>
>Been pulling my hair out this past week trying to get a Bluetooth
>Dongle (Epox BT-DG03BF) installed on my laptop (HP Pavilion ZV5000).
>
>Have tried installing the WIDCOMM drivers supplied with it, along with
>the HP Bluetooth Support drivers (also WIDCOMM) on the HP Technical
>Support site also.
>
>And i keep getting the dongle installed as a USB Composite Device in my
>Device Manager. And even after installing the drivers, i'm getting 'My
>Bluetooth Places' and 'Bluetooth Configuration' in Control Panel... but
>no 'Bluetooth Radios' / 'Bluetooth Devices' in my Device Manager.
>
>Strange one, don't you think?
>
>Hope someone can help me with 'this rhubard of a jam of a pickle'! (to
>quote Ned Flanders)
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Brian

Are you running Windows XP with SP2? If yes, the following may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;840635