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March 28th, 2019 19:00
Inspiron 7537 Bluetooth Drivers
About a 5 year old 7537 now running Windows 10 Education
I decided to go thru and update bios, drivers, etc. All went well until I hit "Netowrk" group, specifically bluetooth. There are two bluetooth drivers:
Intel 3160 7260 3165 7265 8260 8265 Bluetooth Driver
File Name: Intel-3160-7260-3165-7265-8260-8265-Bluetooth-Driver_YV365_WIN_20.60.0_A06.EXE |
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Intel Centrino Wireless-N 7260 Bluetooth Adapter Driver
File Name: Network_Application_NFTVV_WN32_17.1.1524.1353_A00.EXE |
So which do I use? Both? The laptop has an Intel Wireless-N 7260
For some reason this is getting marked as spam. Sigh.
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JOcean
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March 29th, 2019 04:00
The first one you mention is a much newer driver (July 2018 updated Dec 2018) and is meant for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and April 2018 update. Assuming you have kept your Windows 10 up to date with current releases, that would be the one to choose. Also the first version is marked Urgent, the other just Recommended.
https://www.dell.com/support/home/ca/en/cadhs1/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=yv365&oscode=wt64a&productcode=inspiron-15-7537
mjstraw-iup.edu
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March 29th, 2019 07:00
It started out as W10 Home, but I upgraded (new license key) to W10 Education before starting to update the drivers. So I assume it's current as far a W10 releases are concerned. Actually, when purchased it had W8 or 8.1 installed but we let it upgrade to W10 Home before we quit using it.
I did install both driver files. One of them (forget which one) generated a pop-up during install that said "are you sure you want to upgrade from version X to version Y?" I searched all bluetooth devices in device manager and none of them was using version X drivers. I found this curious.
Anyway, your evaluation seems reasonable. I'll go back and [re]install the "urgent" one to make sure it's what I'm actually running.
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March 29th, 2019 07:00
It's also curious that the file name for the older driver identifies itself as "network application".