Fun short article, the kicker at the end is great:
Fun short article, the kicker at the end is great:
There is a special table inside the Bluetooth drivers of “Devices that report their names wrong (and the correct name to use)”. If the Bluetooth stack sees one of these devices, and it presents the wrong name, then the correct name is substituted.
I can imagine the changelog. "Fixed an error where the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 was displaying the wrong name". Technically true is the best sort of true! As an aside, does...
I can imagine the changelog. "Fixed an error where the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 was displaying the wrong name". Technically true is the best sort of true!
As an aside, does Windows not let you assign nicknames to bluetooth devices still?
You're supposed to be able to, but I got the still-annoying error chime and an extremely unhelpful "failed to set name" every time I tried. I have the same peripherals for my laptop and desktop,...
As an aside, does Windows not let you assign nicknames to bluetooth devices still?
You're supposed to be able to, but I got the still-annoying error chime and an extremely unhelpful "failed to set name" every time I tried. I have the same peripherals for my laptop and desktop, and sometimes they get swapped around so they have both in their devices list.
Fun short article, the kicker at the end is great:
I can imagine the changelog. "Fixed an error where the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 was displaying the wrong name". Technically true is the best sort of true!
As an aside, does Windows not let you assign nicknames to bluetooth devices still?
You're supposed to be able to, but I got the still-annoying error chime and an extremely unhelpful "failed to set name" every time I tried. I have the same peripherals for my laptop and desktop, and sometimes they get swapped around so they have both in their devices list.