A Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator is a protocol set, or set of standards or guidelines, essentially used to organize and facilitate the data transfer between remote Bluetooth devices. Bluetooth Enumerators are sometimes referred to as Bluetooth dongles, or adapters. Download drivers for Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator. Drivers found: 13. To download the drivers, select the appropriate version of driver and supported operating system.
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The Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator is a native Windows 7 protocol that enables the operating system to organize your Bluetooth devices and optimize the communications between the computer and the various devices. If you don't need to use the Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator feature on your business computers, or if it interferes with some of your Bluetooth devices, use the Device Manager interface to disable it in just a few minutes.
1.Click 'Start | Control Panel | Hardware and Sound | Device Manager.'
2.Double-click the Bluetooth node to view all Bluetooth devices.
3.Right-click the 'Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator' and select 'Properties' from the context menu to open its Properties window.
4.Click the 'Driver' tab at the top of the Properties window to switch to it.
5.Click the 'Disable' button, then click 'Yes' to confirm the action and disable the Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator.
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My computer has a bluetooth device which uses the default Windows 7 driver stack. When the 'Generic Bluetooth Adapter' device is activated in the device manager, a device named 'Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator' appears next to it.
What is the purpose of the enumerator device and why is it separate from the bluetooth device itself?
Additional explanation of the question as requested in the comments
I'd like to know why Microsoft (or whoever) decided to split Bluetooth functionality into 2 different devices (unlike most other devices, which are represented by just a single device in the device manager) as well as what the functionality of this secondary Bluetooth 'enumerator' device is.
One answer below claims that the (sole?) purpose of the enumerator device is to enumerate/cycle through connected Bluetooth devices and return information about the capabilities of them. But if so, it seems odd that:
1) This functionality is not located in the main Bluetooth device but separated into a secondary device.
2) That this is the sole purpose of the enumerator device.
If this is indeed the case, it would be nice with an explanation of the rationale behind this decision.
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Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator comes into play when you plug the Bluetooth device without the driver wherein Windows 7 automatically installs its driver.
After Windows detect Bluetooth device, it is controlled by Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator and not the third-party driver.
In other words, it is used like a management system which can enumerate (cycle through) all the bluetooth devices and what each device can do.
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