Crapware, poor products that are made to carry out some task or function very poorly.

This is my hate list, I really despise these products. If you are a manufacturer of these products please contact me how I am failing at using your product.

I don’t mind Acer, well I do. Bluetooth, ACER fix it !

If you manage to break bluetooth on an ACER, good luck it is gone.

It’s not the drivers or the OS it’s BT on an ACER it just won’t work.

What happened was I removed the bluetooth monitor app from startup on ACER vista, later I could not find the device.

I enabled the monitor, reinstalled the BT stack, reinstalled the BT drivers and ACER BT components, fiddled with the BT switch (which did indicate that BT was being turned ON/OFF.

Then I booted up Ubuntu 7.10, “lsusb” showed a BT module, but no function from it.

I installed WXP with all the drivers and utilities ACER had on the download page relevant to the laptop model. Then I flashed the bios.

Still no dice.

I recovered a Vista image I made earlier – No DICE.