Windows 10: Bluetooth devices, printers, etc. work fine but not showing in Settings or Action Center in...

Bluetooth devices can be paired with the computer and work fine without any problem, but they just do NOT show up in either Settings or Action Center.Installed printers via TCP/IP port can be found and used in Edge, Word, Excel, etc. but not show up in Settings.Wondering whether this is a known issue of 24H2 since it seems that it has not been listed in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2PS: Hope low-quality coders in Microsoft will top poop in future Windows versions literally everywhere like ***ians. Oops I forgot that most devs in MS are ***ian

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No button for bluetooth in action center

Joe,

Assuming that you have a Bluetooth card, run these checks -

Do you have a Bluetooth entry in Settings, Devices?



If not then Windows does not think you have a Bluetooth card. Check Device manager for a Bluetooth group.

1. If neither of these is there then you do not have a Bluetooth card or you have disabled Bluetooth in the BIOS. You should check your BIOS for a relevant entry but BIOSes vary so I cannot suggest where such a setting might be. You could seek advice from your computer maker or their user forum.
2. If one is there but not the other then you might be able to get it working correctly by reinstalling the driver from your Computer / Bluetooth card maker's website.

You can customise the items shown in Action center but Bluetooth, if it is enabled, is generally put there by default. As explained above, you can customise what is shown by playing around with Settings, System, Notifications. You can add more entries or you can drag off existing entries or you can drag existing entries around to get them in the layout you prefer.




Denis

 

No button for bluetooth in action center

Joe, click Action Center Icon and click on All Settings. Click System, click Notification and Actions, click Add or remove Quick Actions, and turn Bluetooth ON. That will make it appear in the Action Center on your desktop. You can also turn it ON by going to All Settings, Devices, Bluetooth and Other, Bluetooth ON.

C.B.

 

bluetooth icon does not show up in action center

I have a similar problem with a Microsoft Keyboard Elite with Intellimouse and a USB dongle. Worked fine with W7 - in W10 there is no bluetooth icon in the action centre. All drivers are up to date and I can see the Bluetooth USB unit - reproting to work
fine. Started the bluetooth services and set to automatic (it was set to manual....) A bit short of the mark when your SW can't handle your own hardware.... have spent hours trying to find a workaround and I think the answer is buy a new Logitec set with
a USB radio unless someone has a good fix. Microsoft leveraging customer patience for debugging is getting increasingly annoying.