Bluetooth engineering lets you connect gadgets wirelessly to your computer running Windows 10, removing clutter from your desktop. On a tablet, Bluetooth lets you add a mouse and keyboard without hogging one of your coveted USB ports.

Bluetooth can also connect your reckoner, laptop, or tablet with some cellphones for wireless Internet access — if your wireless provider allows it, of form.

To add together a Bluetooth detail to a reckoner, laptop, or tablet, follow these steps:

  1. Make sure your Bluetooth device is turned on and set up to pair.

    About Bluetooth devices include a simple On/Off switch. Telling the device to begin pairing is a little more hard. Sometimes y'all can simply flip a switch. Other devices make you concord downwardly a push button until its little light begins flashing.

    When yous spot the flashing lite, the device is ready to pair with some other Bluetooth device including, y'all hope, your calculator.

  2. Click the Commencement button, choose Settings, and click the Settings app'due south Devices icon.

    The Devices page of the app appears and shows you a list of currently installed devices.

  3. Click the Bluetooth option from the left side of the Devices window.

    Your computer quickly begins searching for whatever nearby Bluetooth devices that want to connect, known in Bluetooth parlance equally pair.

    If your device doesn't announced, head dorsum to Pace 1 and make sure your Bluetooth gadget is still turned on and set up to pair. (Many surrender and turn off after 30 seconds of waiting to connect.)

  4. When your device's name appears below the Add a Device button, click its proper noun.

  5. Type in your device'south code if necessary and, if asked, click the Pair button.

    Hither's where things go gummy. For security reasons, you need to prove that you're sitting in front end of your own computer and that you're not a stranger trying to break in. Unfortunately, devices employ slightly unlike tactics when making y'all prove your innocence.

    Sometimes you need to type a undercover string of numbers called a passcode into both the device and your figurer. (The secret code is commonly subconscious somewhere in your device's manual.) But you need to type quickly before the other gadget stops waiting.

    On some gadgets, particularly Bluetooth mice, you hold in a little push on the mouse's belly at this footstep.

    Cellphones sometimes make you click a Pair button if you see matching passcodes on both your estimator and phone.

    When in doubt, type 0000 on your keyboard. That'southward ofttimes recognized as a universal passcode for frustrated Bluetooth devices owners who are trying to connect their gadgets.

    After a gadget successfully pairs with your computer, its proper noun and icon appear in the Devices category of the Settings app.

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To add a Bluetooth device from the Windows desktop, click the taskbar'south Bluetooth icon (shown in the margin), choose Add a Bluetooth Device, then jump to Step iii in the preceding list. Don't meet the taskbar's Bluetooth icon? Then click the upward-pointing arrow that lives a few icons to the left of the taskbar's clock. The Bluetooth icon appears in the pop-upward bill of fare, ready for your click.

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About the book author:

Woody Leonhard was one of the start Microsoft consulting partners and Microsoft beta testers. Leonhard has been honored with multiple Computer Press Awards and runs his own weblog sharing news, advice, and support tips for Windows at AskWoody.com.

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