How to definitely remove/uninstall Bluetooh drivers and devices in Windows 10? (Regedit)

I have a Bluetooth device keyboard corrupted as paired. I tried everything to remove and reinstall it. But it seems like windows is always saving the devices in the registry or something.

What I have tried:

Removed one by one all the hidden devices from Device Manager > Bluetooh
After uninstalling the last one and install the official drivers provided by Dell: https://www.dell.com/support/home/es/es/esdhs1/drivers/driversdetails?driverId=VP1XV&osCode=WT64A&productCode=xps-15-9570-laptop
Installation process ask me to restart
After restart, I go to device manager and the removed/uninstalled devices and drivers are there again!!

I'm completly desperated. Is there a way to remove all the devices from regedit or some type of hidden file in the system?

EnZo

Posted 2019-01-23T21:16:44.333

Reputation: 121

Answers

There could be a more simple way to try.

Open Windows settings
Click "Devices"
Make sure it's on "Bluetooth & other devices"
Click on the device you want to remove
Click "Remove device"
Now go back into your Device Manager and make sure all the drivers are uninstalled. If they remain then uninstall them.
Then restart the PC without installing any other drivers yet! If it restarts and the drivers are gone then the issue is fixed and you can !

I'm suspecting that it is reinstalling the drivers because it still sees the device as being attached to the PC in the Settings menu, but doesn't have a driver for that device. Windows automatically downloads and installs drivers for devices that it is attached to. This causes the drivers to reappear and cause the issue you're dealing with.

Hope this fixes your issue! ~TJ

KiLL3Rw0lF

Posted 2019-01-23T21:16:44.333

Reputation: 49

I tried that but in a different order, the same issue after restart when I follow your steps. But different result before restart. The problem is always Keyboard K380. Is like corrupted. It works perfectly in my macbook pro. https://imgur.com/j05t2BC

– EnZo – 2019-01-23T22:00:17.007

Here another screenshot after removing all devices from Device Manager and then trying to remove it from "Bluetooth & other devices" https://imgur.com/a/6i3vhAy Totally broken.

– EnZo – 2019-01-23T22:05:01.667

Hmm, ok. Try this to see if it can find an issue:

Click the search button bottom right
Search "CMD"
Right-click and choose "Run as Administrator"
Type in "sfc /SCANNOW" and press Enter

Then just wait for the scan to complete. If there is a corrupt Windows file then this should find and correct it. – KiLL3Rw0lF – 2019-01-23T22:29:47.507

Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations. – EnZo – 2019-01-24T10:21:38.507

I've tried so many things with that kind of problem until I've stumbled upon the bluetooth command line tools

Once installed, run btpair -u from the command lines. It will unpair everything from your device. Then you should be able to pair again.

K_Rol

Posted 2019-01-23T21:16:44.333

Reputation: 196