Windows sideshow htc wizard

Bingo - this worked a treat, all working now. Thanks for your help, away to have a play with sideshow. However on second PC, which is nearly identical, Sideshow driver installs two times like if two mbiles are recognised and doesn't work. Deleting and reinstalling drivers does not work: the Sideshow universal driver is installed two times and the mobile phone connects , but does not show up in Sideshow devices on the PC.

On the non-working PC, I use a Belkin dongle bluetooth 2, m. The Windows sideshow service IS enabled. Strange thing is that 2 two instances of the sideshow device appear in the device manager, connecting to the same phone. And I can connect , from my mobile, but the user PC-name does not show up on the options screen, and on the PC, the mobile does not appear in the Sideshow-screen. Dont see Cambridge Silicon in list.

I tried several manufacturers and USB Radio its also generic , but allway getting "Registry entries are incoretc" error, or similiar, cant remember exact thing. How can I attach pic here, or send it to you, to better describe problem? Try to force install one of the other generic radios, then please send setupapi. Does the Belkin dongle use the Microsoft bluetooth enumerator?

If you switch dongles between the PCs, does the behavior change does the second work and the first stop? If not, do both devices disappear from the computer when you disable the service?

Also, is the phone connected to both PCs at the same time? If you go to bluetooth devices on your phone, is there just one pairing for each PC?

When I disable the service one remains. Uninstalling pairing on both sides, uninstalling the sideshow device and repairing solved the problem! The SCH-i had a fatal error and needed to be reset to factory image.

After which I repaired and re-installed several apps. I have tried repairing, rebooting both pc and pda , re-installing sideshow on pda, etc etc. SideShow service is listed under the BT device properties. Click on the Options tab and see if "Allow Bluetooth Devices to find this computer" is checked or not. I've the following problem. But when I selected the sideshow tickbox in the bluetoothmenu on the PC then Vista pops up with the question to install drivers for "bleutooth peripheral device".

I have this problem with my WM6. I contacted Microsoft via the offical support and thet told me my bleutooth dongle included with the Microsoft Wireless entertainment desktopset is not "compatible"??? But how come? I can do everything else with that bluetooth dongle It's normal for the PC to ask for drivers when you check the SideShow checkbox and click ok; if you select the search for drivers online option, it should find and install them automatically.

Are you doing this and it is not finding the drivers? That is correct. It is not finding anything in any possible way tried them all. My wife wanted this Dutch Vista because of the "media center" capabilities I'm using. Also I read a lot about using another "non Microsoft" blutooth device driver stack.

But that's something I would try in last place because of the fact It's a media center and my wife already is bored that there are so many disruptions in it always tweaking and changing compared to the old VCR And I'm affraid that that will cause me trouble and also I think Microsoft product should work with microsoft products.

But Vista Ultimate tells me that the drivers are not compatible do not remember exact text. Since Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 5 and 6 at least uses the owner's name instead of the device name as its bluetooth name, which Windows Vista then uses as the SideShow device name, the naming can get confusing.

Having a Pocket PC icon would give an extra hint as to which SideShow device it represent, and make it all more polished when several SideShow devices are installed on the same PC.

It doesn't sound like your problem is in the Bluetooth stack, I think the next step is just to get the drivers to be recognized. If you aren't sure which to use, click start menu, right click computer, select properties - if under system type it says 32, it's an x86 box, and if it says 64 it's an AMD Make sure the driver files have been extracted from the. CAB file before pointing device manager.

If the issue still repros or if you have already taken all these steps, in which case I apologize we'll take it from there. I had tried these steps before but tried them again on your directions. It still isn't recognized not with AMD nor x You said if "system type" is 32 it's intel x86, else 64 it's AMD.

I find this strange In the screen you pointed me to it tells me "type computer: bits operating system. I really hope you can help me on my directions and all others on the internet on other forums that have the same "problem" with this bluetooth peripheral device driver problem for windows mobile 5 and 6. Sorry for the delay - It's a bit x86 machine; Machines with bit capable processors can be set up with bit versions of Windows, and it appears that is how your machine is configured.

Do you have any other bluetooth enabled PCs, so you can see whether the service is still available on the phone after the connection is broken with the initial PC? The SideShow service should be running as long as the app is running. Power cycling the phone and re-launching SideShow should guarantee the service restarts on the phone.

What kind of bluetooth radio do you have on the PC, and what drivers? What phone? I would also try making your PC discoverable if it isn't already and seeing if that helps things out.

I am not familiar with that PDA; it is possible that for some reason the bluetooth service is getting brought down periodically. If you are having trouble connecting, exiting SideShow use menu - exit rather than closing the window , and making sure it is not on your running programs list, then re-launching it, should shut down the service and bring it back up.

This toggles the SideShow service on and off. If when you run it it says "Service Started", it indicates that the service stopped running on the device, probably due to a crash of some kind; thereafter you should be able to see the service running on the PC at least until it crashes again.

If it says "Service Stopped", it indicates that the device still thought it was running the service, it just got into a bad state of some kind I'm having similar problems to other people on this thread. The problem seems to be the bluetooth drivers. The included drivers for this stick was the Bluesoleil drivers. So I used information on the web to instead install the usb stick with the intel drivers. Seemed to work perfectly until I paired the PPC with the computer. Then it couldn't find any drivers for the "Peripheral device" i.

So after this I have a device in the device manager peripheral device that has no driver. But I can still connect to the PPC and I can also find the Sideshow service for it and enable that one it installs the sideshow drivers without any problem. The problem however is that I cannot see my device in the Sideshow page of the control panel. No device is listed, so I cannot activate any gadgets for it. I tried selecting "Bluetooth sideshow device" when asked for drivers for the PPC when connecting it using bluetooth, but that only made it so that I then had two entries for sideshow devices in the device manager.

Could you post an image of device manager on the HTPC with the bluetooth radios, unknown devices and windows sideshow nodes expanded? Alternatively, if you just list out what's there in bullet points that's fine too It sounds like you already tried force installing the driver, and that worked, but it didn't come up in the control panel, is this correct? If none of this works it's most likely some incompatibility with your radio.

To verify this, you could plug the usb stick into your Dell XPS, turn off the onboard bluetooth, install the MS bluetooth drivers and try pairing there.

However, in the BT properties of the phone I do not get a "Windows SideShow" service in the Services tab, even though the SideShow client on the phone is showing the pretty blue "This device is not connected to the computer" screen.

I thought that the SideShow client would automagically supply my phone with needed extra BT service, but apparently it doesn't. What gives? Any idea? Apologies for the inconvenience. We have had some users report issues when using SideShow on phones which are being used at the same time as ActiveSync, though not with that particular symptom.

Just to be sure, have either of you tried pairing with a phone without ActiveSync running? Occasionally when the ActiveSync partnership lists a different user it causes the username to not show up in the SideShow for Windows Mobile software, and deleting the partnership or editing this in the mobile registry can solve that problem. Hello Jeroen, It seems you've tried a few different methods to get SideShow functioning but what I think you may want to try is this.

Clean up everything. From the device manager, uninstall the SideShow WM device and remove the driver if it appears under the Windows SideShow device node b.

Remove uninstall SideShow from the WM deivce. Reboot both the PC and WM device 4. Make sure BT is prepared for pairing and you have the correct BT driver. Pair the WM device to the PC 7. Also some WM device may require the BT discovery to be enabled. Check the BT Options tab for this. On the WM device, navigate to SideShow and hit connect 9. If it connects, you may or may not be prompted to download the latest Windows SideShow Univeral Driver, go ahead and download it.

At this point you should see the WM device under the Windows SideShow node in Device Manager and you should be able to get to the SideShow control panel to enable gadgets. Let us know how this goes! If this problem persists, wait a few minutes and try again. I'm sorry but I will tell you I use Windows Mobile 6. I'm experiencing the same issue on Windows 7 RTM x The only weird thing on the desktop is that when the SideShow client shows the screen to select the user, no user is in the drop-down list, going to Options after lets me select the correct user just fine.

Note the same Windows Mobile client could also connect fine to the Toshiba M computer when it was running Windows Vista x86 SP2 with Microsoft Bluetooth Stack same Toshiba Bluetooth module with driver for MS stack instead of the Toshiba stack , so there is no hardware incompatibility.

Could this be a Windows 7 xspecific issue? The download page says it has to be connected to a Windows Vista computer before it can sucessfully be connected to a Windows 7 one, but soon Windows Vista will be hard to find in my office Unfortunately I cannot connect. I've tried using the Generic Bluetooth drivers, but no success.

The content you requested has been removed. Ask a question. Quick access. A Windows SideShow gadget needs to be registered to be usable. The projects the wizard creates use the SideShow object model to enable you to register the gadget through a command-line option. For projects created using the wizard, this command-line option -r executes as a post-build event in Visual Studio. Instead, your installer should register gadgets by using the Windows Installer Registry table.

You can see the registration code in the function named Main in the GadgetEntry. If the gadget you created includes a property page, the project includes a post-build event to register the gadget assembly by using the Regasm. For this registration to work without issuing warnings, you must sign the gadget assembly. About the Project Templates and Sample Code. NET Framework Components. Windows SideShow. Download Now. Developer's Description By Microsoft. Full Specifications. What's new in version 1.

Release December 5, Date Added August 30, Version 1. Operating Systems. Operating Systems Windows, Windows Vista. Additional Requirements Windows Vista.

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