Bluetooth is a wireless technology that lets you connect two bluetooth enabled devices wirelessly. This ubiquitous technology is present in most of the cellphones,laptops and notepad computers. It is also the technology that connects your headsets to your Mobile phone.It is also used in the wireless Keyboard and mice that let you operate a computer from large distances.

A bluetooth monitor is a software that provides the drivers that are essential to connect the bluetooth device to your computer.

Most of the modern laptops(>2004) have a built-in bluetooth chip which helps transmit data wirelessly. But most of the desktops and the older laptops do not have this component. You can add a Bluetooth functionality by connecting a device called the Bluetooth dongle. (The Dongle looks like the one below)

When you add a Bluetooth dongle to a Toshiba laptop and if it is not something that has not been built by toshiba then you can't use it properly for long periods. You would have to download a set of softwares called the bluetooth stack from toshiba's website . This will allow you to operate the bluetooth dongle but for a period of 30 days.

This is because toshiba assumes that you are a a developer trying to use their tools and expects you to obtain a license from them. After the end of 30 days, the Bluetooth software/stack will stop working and the following message is displayed "Please obtain a license for this version of Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba."
But then there is no way to get such a license as toshiba does not sell such licenses !

So what to do when you get this ?

Here is a simple workaround, which I believe, will work for all laptops and PC's.

Install a different Bluetooth Monitor software such as Bluesoleil .This software is very similar to Toshiba's Bluetooth stack and Bluetooth Monitor softwares. It has more features and supports a very large number of Bluetooth Dongles.

Bluesoleil is one of those popular softwares on file sharing sites. You can download Bluesoleil from The Pirate Bay or Mininova or Torrentz using the following links. Just Click on the thumbnails to go to the relevant sites. But be warned that you could get infected with a few malicious viruses and Trojans transmitted through the torrents. You have been warned.



If you have a clean mind that is against piracy, you can download an original version of the software from the official website. The catch is that it is a shareware.


Bluesoleil is a shareware and used in the free mode it allows you to transfer a max of 5 MB of data at a time. Once you buy the license, you can use it with no limitations.

This should solve all your bluetooth manager problems on a Windows PC /laptop no matter when the laptop was manufactured.

I had a Toshiba laptop with a 3.0 GHz hyperthreaded processor and 1.2 Gb of RAM but with no Bluetooth. I faced all the above problems and whatever is written above is the solution that i managed to find. The bluetooth now works great with abssolutely no problems. Blesoleil seems to be a tad better than Toshiba's original software.



Linux users need to download a package called "bluetooth-gnome" OR "bluetooth-kde" using a suitable package manager depending on the windows environoment you use. These packages will add an application to transfer files that will work as a breeze and moreover it is legally free too! By default Ubuntu does not have a bluetooth data transfer program. Even though it is a small file of size < 1MB , It is not included. it's like the mp3 issue. You cannot play music unless you install gstreamer and gstreamer for mp3 is such a small download! Strange are the ways of opensource.