Back in December, I put out the first non-OEM Windows Mobility Center tile that enabled users to control the state of the display, along with source code to both the tile and the bundled installer. Convinced it didn’t catch on, I abandoned the idea long ago.
A few days ago, Scott Kurth shot me a few notes announcing the availability of his new tile that lets you control the state of your Bluetooth adapter. A screen-shot, of which I had to wrestle out of Scott’s Flickr account, has been glued below. Great job Scott!
Feel free to download his tile (~1.6MB) and/or all the associated source code (~0.25MB). Neither of us are responsible if your computer turns into blue cheese.
Picture: Windows Mobility Center, Bluetooth Toggle Tile
© Scott Kurth
write me please about uxtheme.. gmail can’t deliver letter to you.
write and i resend my qestion.
Kudos to you Rafael for bringing the Mobility Center tweaks to the forefront. As a Boot Camp (2.1) user, the enhancement you originally offered, followed by Scott’s bluetooth tile was exactly what I needed. It is a shame that further development on WMC customization isn’t utilized. I originally stumbled on Scott’s response in the Apple discussion forum (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1440935&tstart=135), but I was a bit confused that Scott pointed to your first post (http://www.withinwindows.com/2007/12/21/the-first-non-oem-static-windows-mobility-center-tile/). The display toggle was nice, but I did not see any mention of the bluetooth toggle tile. After more searching, I found this post. Unfortunately, the thread appears to have died before Scott could update it. I’m not at the level of a programmer, so thank whatever the patron saint is of IT that y’all provided an installer. I’ve got a MacBook Pro running Vista Enterprise SP1, and Scott’s msi didn’t pooch or blue cheese my OS. It works like a charm. Thanks again to the both of you.
In any case, I’d love to see the thread resurrected; there’s nothing worse than an unanswered or abandoned posting.
Cheers,
John
Very very good!!! I have HP TX2510us, and this will be very helpful!!! Thank you!!!
This application turns off the bluetooth as the flight mode?
Bluetooth Toggle not working on Vista 64 Bits, someone has a solution???
would love to see this as a vista 64bit tile please
I would like to see this released for Vista x64 as well. It’s just a few lines of code to tweak I’m sure.
Wow i downloaded this but cannot get an install under vista 64, to chime in on the above 64 bit version or instuctions on setting up would be well received
Cheers
The tile does not seem to be appearing under Windows 7 x64 either…
Windows 7 Pro.
Tile installed. However, the bluetooth light (near my Insert/Home/Page Up keys) does not turn on or off. It does appear to turn it on/off but without going to Device Manager I do not know the status of it… I would try to update the Code but I do not know “C”.
Ideally we could see a change in the status light or atleast an on/off
Dell D620
Bluetooth: Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module
Windows 7 Pro x86.
The tile was installed successfully. However it would be great if one could see if bluetooth is toggled on or off because after clicking “toggle bluetooth” I don’t know the status and there is no change of the bluetooth adapter in the device manager.
And just in case it somehow doesn’t work correctly, how could I uninstall the tile?
Never mind the question about uninstalling the tile… never thought about it being a program because it’s something in the windows mobility center ;-)
For uninstalling the tile it’s listed in “programs”.
Congratulations for the work but this Vista x86 tile isn’t working in Windows 7 Pro x64. Couldn’t you make this version?!
Thanks!