can not install bluetooh driver on windows 8.1 preview

When I upgraded my BT toshiba stack, everything goes awry, my billionton bluetooth dongle is detected as unknown, and when I tried installing the driver from billionton site, the installation keeps asking to plug in the dongle, even when it has been plunged in, and when I tried to install the generic driver from windows update, always ended in error “invalid data”
I tried the dongle on another pc, it’s working normally
can someone help me ? it seems something blocked the bluetooth driver installation in windows 8.1 preview
thanks
Answer #1

I tried the dongle on another pc, it's working normally
can someone help me ? it seems something blocked the bluetooth driver installation in windows 8.1 preview
thanks
What other pc did you try it on? what windows… same version?
Blocked?… try turning off UAC. user access control.. and then running the driver setup.
and any other blocking type of software… win defender… temp disable it.
UAC = useless annoying crap.. lol! I just now thought of that saying. lol.
Answer #2
no, my other pc which works with the dongle is windows 8, while the problematic one is windows 8.1, I tried disabling windows defender, but to no avail
even windows update to install csr bluetooth driver is failed with error msg “invalid data”
UAC is already disabled since the first time I installed windows 8.1
Answer #3

I tried the dongle on another pc, it's working normally
can someone help me ? it seems something blocked the bluetooth driver installation in windows 8.1 preview
thanks
What other pc did you try it on? what windows... same version?
Blocked?... try turning off UAC. user access control.. and then running the driver setup.
and any other blocking type of software... win defender... temp disable it.
UAC = useless annoying crap.. lol! I just now thought of that saying. lol.
Terrible advice.
Anyway don’t use the driver manufacturers installer. go to %temp% and delete everything in there
run the installer and wait until it craps out the message
your drivers will be in %temp% in a subfolder
Look for .sys and .ini and use the device manager to install the drivers.
Answer #4

I tried the dongle on another pc, it's working normally
can someone help me ? it seems something blocked the bluetooth driver installation in windows 8.1 preview
thanks
What other pc did you try it on? what windows... same version?
Blocked?... try turning off UAC. user access control.. and then running the driver setup.
and any other blocking type of software... win defender... temp disable it.
UAC = useless annoying crap.. lol! I just now thought of that saying. lol.
Terrible advice.
Anyway don't use the driver manufacturers installer. go to %temp% and delete everything in there
run the installer and wait until it craps out the message
your drivers will be in %temp% in a subfolder
Look for .sys and .ini and use the device manager to install the drivers.
negative, there aren’t such files in the temp dir
Answer #5
Can you provide a link to download them and ill see how to extract them.
Answer #6
Can you provide a link to download them and ill see how to extract them.
ftp://user@211.20.115.99/v71022_20101208.zip
Pass:user
I have tried install using right click at tosfusb.inf, and install, but nothing happened, it seems like window doesnt even detect the usb bt at all
Answer #7
Here are the drivers, You can now use any Bluetooth stack you wish with the device. Use the device manager to install them.
http://netload.in/dateiESbmQVveH4/Drivers.zip.htm
Answer #8
Here are the drivers, You can now use any Bluetooth stack you wish with the device. Use the device manager to install them.
http://netload.in/dateiESbmQVveH4/Drivers.zip.htm
I tried them, I use device manager, I right clicked the device, then >>>> update driver >>> browse to the directory where I extracted the driver, and as usual, this is the error message which came up after that
Answer #9
crap i didn’t think the driver needed the Toshiba stack files, Oh well just extract the whole BtSwInst.msi with universal extractor like i did and point it to the extracted files.
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
Answer #10
crap i didn't think the driver needed the Toshiba stack files, Oh well just extract the whole BtSwInst.msi with universal extractor like i did and point it to the extracted files.
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
Actually in the past, even without toshiba bt, the device works with the generic bt driver from windows update
The problem is, even windows update is unable to install it’s generic driver, always come up with the msg “invalid data”
I think the problem lies not in the driver, but somewhere, somethin’ is blocking the bt installation, but I have no idea what is the culprit
Answer #11
“invalid data” where ? The device manager or windows update ?
Answer #12
"invalid data" where ? The device manager or windows update ?

Answer #13
Remember the 8.1 preview is still really in Beta stage and you will come across weird glitches like this. Sounds like a report to MSDN is in order if you can’t get it running so they can fix it in the general release. I’ll look on the MSDN forum tomorrow and see if there are any similar issues.