News How To Remove Stubborn Bluetooth Devices in Windows

[Admin]

Sometimes we need to get our hands dirty and remove a stubborn device using the registry, and this how-to shows you how to surgically remove a Bluetooth device that is no longer responding.

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[Opticalla]

Thanks for this article! I used it recently to help remove my 8Bitdo Pro 2 controller from my Bluetooth list when Windows 10 failed to remove it using the included method via settings (it would only report that the remove failed after each attempt).

I ran into one hiccup when trying to find the device ID that I'd like to share in case it helps someone else.
I couldn't find the device's ID in the Device Manager because it was not present there, sadly.
However, I was able to find the device's ID by using this method instead of relying on it being present in Device Manager.

1. Go to the old Control Panel
2. All Control Panel Items
3. Devices and Printers
4. Right click the device --> properties
5. Bluetooth tab
6. Copy the "Unique identifier" but then remove the colons so it is only a string of alpha numerical data with no colons EXAMPLE e5:17:d8:e1:10:95 would become e517d8e11095
7. This code will be what can be found in the registry location you referenced to be able to delete the correct registry item

Hopefully if anyone runs into this hiccup they can get past it and thanks again for the helpful article!

 

[Iseecj]

BRO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I've been stressing out for half an hour and watching tutorial, most of them is just going to device manager to remove pair which didn't work. The connected Bluetooth earbuds which indicate on my laptop "remove failed" and I can't even see it on the "add a device" I don't know why. But when I try this method, it worked! just still didn't get to remove on pair but I saw it in the "add a device" then BAM, CONNECTED. THANKSSS FOR POSTING THIS.