Am trying to send some files from my laptop to my mobile phone thru bluetooth but here is what I got (this is the laptop's BT that has a prob not the mobile):

Error message:
Bluetooth device not found.
Please verify that your Bluetooth device is properly connected and turned on.

What I did:
Went to control panel > Bluetooth configuration.
On the diagnostics tab, I clicked refresh.

But it says there that bluetooth device is not detected.

I then went to device manager to see if something flags there but there aren't any.
Went to Windows update to see if anything that needs to be updated, specially with regards to BT but there aren't any.


Went to bluetooth devices, ticked discover on but can't save it.
Error Message:
An error occured while Windows is saving your settings. The following settings were not saved:

Discoverability settings
Connection settings.

Next,

I went to HP wireless assistant then turned off BT there as that may be conflicting with the other one. Though that's never been a problem before. Rebooted. Stil no go.

I just noticed this problem yesterday and did all those above to no avail.


Compaq presario v3000 series (quite old )
XP SP3


Thank you.