Comments on: Windows Mobility Center Tile/Tile Installer Source Code

By: Vassejapjat

Vassejapjat — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Слу, да как ты вобще до такого додумался?

By: Lydayseaf

Lydayseaf — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Много букф, можно чуть покомпактнее?

By: Eternity

Eternity — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Keep up the good work.

By: Lester_br

Lester_br — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Very very good!!! I have HP TX2510us, and this will be very helpful!!! Thank you!!!

New link working for Bluetooth:
http://www.withinwindows.com/files/wmc/tiles/Bluetooth/BluetoothTileInstaller.zip

By: Pushkar Sharma

Pushkar Sharma — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Hi,
I am not able to see the tile in Windows Vista Mobility Center after I install the MSI. The display off tile works fine. I am not sure if I missed something here. I downloaded the MSI file and ran it. I have done it few times but no luck.

The display off tile ended up in c:\ProgramFiles\Windows Mobility Center

whereas the bluetooth power off tile ended up in c:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Windows Mobility Center

I am running 64bit Vista Ultimate on the mac.

Any suggestions.

By: Scott W. Kurth

Scott W. Kurth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

One last thing… you’ve got a minor error in your WXS file. If you detect X86 instead of X64, the ProgramFilesFolder variable gets set incorrectly to ProgramFiles – not ProgramFilesFolder. The net result is that on 32-bit systems the tiles directory ends up at the root of C:\.

Thanks for figuring this out! I’m glad I can finally easily turn on / off Bluetooth without nasty batch files or using device manager.

By: Scott W. Kurth

Scott W. Kurth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I should add that your mileage may vary based on the assumptions I made about device ids for your Bluetooth device. There is no warranty implied, explicitly stated, etc. This won’t willy-nilly start disabling random devices on your machine, but it does look for all devices of type “Bluetooth” with ids that begin with USB. Good luck.

By: Scott W. Kurth

Scott W. Kurth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I’ve taken the setup project that you created and created a new tile for enabling / disabling Bluetooth. Here is a screenshot from my machine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottwkurth/2348966202/

This has only been tested on two machines thus far, my MacBook Pro and a friend’s Sony Vaio. I’m not really sure whether this completely powers down the radio, but at the very least it disables the device from a security perspective. If you have UAC turned on, you will be prompted to Allow whenever you toggle. Annoying, but still easier than going through Device Manager. The MSI file for installing the tile is here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/101112149/BluetoothTileInstaller.zip.html

If you don’t trust downloading an MSI from a file sharing site posted by a guy in a comment on a blog (I know I don’t….), here are the source code, projects, and solution for VS2008. Build away – it should be pretty painless. You will still need to provide the MSM files for some Microsoft redistributables like with the DisplayOff source. This is not the most elegantly designed code, but I got it up and running quickly with some samples from the XP DDK.
http://rapidshare.com/files/101112150/BluetoothMobilityCenterTile.Source.zip.html

Rafael – if you would like to host this, feel free to drop these files on your site. This has served my purpose and I’m not interested in maintaining or supporting it so going through the effort to put it up on Sourceforge isn’t in the cards. Hence, the quick and dirty upload to RapidShare.

By: murphy

murphy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the sourcecode. Will take a look next days on it ;)