Question Bluetooth doesn't find devices, but "sees" Bluetooth connection between smartphone and headphones

[Casmurro]

I bought a USB dongle (Orico BTA-408) to have Bluetooth on my PC, but it can't find any Bluetooth devices.

I am trying to pair my Edifier W800BT 4.0 headphones to the PC and it can't find anything, but when I pair the headphones with my smartphone or laptop it works.

I think the dongle is working, because when my smartphone and headphones are paired together and I try to add a Bluetooth device on the PC, I see "EDIFIER BLE", so it seems like it finds the Bluetooth connection between my smartphone and headphones. If I turn off the connection between smartphone and headphones, the PC doesn't find anything again, that's why I think it can be a Windows 10 problem.

I have tried many things and read many forums, but nothing seems to solve the problem. One solution that works for a lot of people is to access regedit and change WindowsNT > CurrentVersion from 6.3 to 6.2, but when I do it and restart the computer the version is 6.3 again, so I can't even test if that would work.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

 

[Shjacks55]

So the dongle sees energy radiated by your smartphone but not your headphones. Does your smartphone (sorry if its iphone) see your PC? Possibly your dongle isn't transmitting. The driver you are using is incapable of enabling it. Does Windows device manager show a yellow exclamation point on the device. The steps at the end are "tricks" to get a bad device driver to work. Microsoft does not write or test device drivers written by hardware manufacturers. If the hardware manufacturer chooses not to support the device in a newer version of windows then contact the vendor for your money back, ha ha. The win95 code at the root of low quality hardware drivers is no longer supported by Windows 10. Reason: it causes system freeze ups.