windows 7 - How do I disable auto-accept for files received via Bluetooth?
2014-07
When accepting a picture via Bluetooth I accidentally enabled the checkbox Always do this for Image files from ...
Now pictures are always accepted from this device and I am unable to change the folder to save them in.
How can I reset this setting so the dialog appears again?
The Bluetooth stack
First of all, even though in Windows 7 the Bluetooth settings dialog always looks the same, there are at least two different Bluetooth stacks available which differ significantly in capabilities.
One of them (Widcomm/Broadcom) can easily be recognized because it has the Bluetooth Device Control
window that opens when you double click a Bluetooth device in Devices and Printers
. This one is also the one that has the dialog mentioned in the question.
The other one (CSR?) features a "Receive file" entry in it's Bluetooth tray icon menu and does not have these Bluetooth Device Control
windows. The question (and answer) does not apply to this kind of Bluetooth stack.
Reset the setting
The UI method
If you feel uncomfortable editing the registry there is a UI method to re-enable that dialog, however it's a bit cumbersome.
- First you need to pair the device in question.
- Then doubleclick it to open the
Bluetooth Device Control
window - Scroll down to the
Authorization Options
section and expand it - Switch to
Always allow this device to connect for all operations
andApply
- Switch back to
Require confirmation for all operations to and from this Bluetooth device
andApply
- You can now unpair the device again
The next time you send a picture from this device, the file receive dialog will appear and give you the chance to choose the destination folder for the received file again.
The Non-UI method
If you do feel comfortable editing the registry, it's much easier:
- Go to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BTConfig\Devices
(notHKCU
, there is a very similar subtree there which I found to have no effect whatsoever) - Find the device in question by it's MAC address or by doubleclicking the
Name
value - Set the
ImageFileOption
(orAudioFileOption
etc.) value to 0 (or just delete the whole device key to reset all setting to default)
I have a USB Bluetooth radio and have used it over XP to connect my jawbone headset to my computer. I'm currently using the Toshiba Stack on Windows 7 Enterprise and it works fine.
I want to disable the popups that appear every time I connect my headset.
First I get this popup:
And then I automatically get this dialog box popping up:
It doesn't matter that I have already set it as the default communications device, it always pops up.
Does anyone know how to stop these popups from appearing automatically every time?