How to make a device disappear from device manager on windows 8.1

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I have a laptop which comes with onboard bluetooth chip. I recently added a wireless card to my laptop which has a bluetooth chip inside. So now I got 2 bluetooth devices in my device manager which has caused me some problems. I tried and uninstalled the first bluetooth device, but each time I restart windows installs the driver by itself. I also tried and disabled the first bluetooth device but still have issues using the second one which is faster and 4th version of bt. I need to delete the first bluetooth from device manager, I mean make it disappear. Since it is onboard chip I can't phisically remove the hardware. Is there any way?

Thanks in advance:)

Pc boy

Posted 2019-10-26T22:32:30.713

Reputation: 21

1How do you know the issues are caused by the first device if it is disabled? – user1686 – 2019-10-26T22:38:12.813

There exists a tool to block driver updates on Windows Update you will have to use that – Ramhound – 2019-10-26T23:33:48.177

The issues are caused by the first device since when I enable it back in the device manager the issues are gone. – Pc boy – 2019-10-27T06:41:25.750

Answers

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In your laptop's BIOS, you should be able to disable onboard devices, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. Check your computer/motherboard"s manual on how to access BIOS on boot. Typically, you will see something along the lines of press the F2 key, F12 key flash during boot up.

Keltari

Posted 2019-10-26T22:32:30.713

Reputation: 57 019

Unfortunately not possible!

It is sony vpcsb18gg and there is only an option to disable all wireless devices together in the bios. – Pc boy – 2019-10-27T06:54:51.317

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