Comments on: XP and Vista: Put or Remove the Bluetooth Icon in the System Tray

By: Charlotte P

Charlotte P — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:52:59 +0000

“Ravi said on February 5, 2010

Just found out.. search for BTTray.exe and double click it.. it will appear in your system trey.”

Thankyou so much Ravi! I’ve been trying to find a solution to this problem for months and this has actually worked. Amazing! Thankyou :D

By: Urna

Urna — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:07:45 +0000

@riya, search for Bluetooth and then click on ‘bluetooth software’ from among the search results. It should have BTTray in it. You have to double-click on that.

By: Urna

Urna — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:05:04 +0000

thank you, all those who suggested the BTTray option, thanks a lot!

By: riya

riya — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:56:00 +0000

i didnt find BTTray evn on searching.. wat do i do

By: dmr

dmr — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:46:00 +0000

I use windows xp and there is no bluetooth devices in control panel???

By: Maurakasu

Maurakasu — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:42:00 +0000

Thanks Ravi, yours and the follow up from D Syverson worked!

By: D Syverson

D Syverson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:21:00 +0000

Perfect thanx. Didn’t work at first, but went ot TASK MANAGER, closed both BTT items, then re-clicked BTTray.exe. Perfect. Thanks again.

By: mEIOSIS

mEIOSIS — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:34:00 +0000

I found a few registry keys that can enable and disable the bluetooth icon on systray, hope this will be useful.

Launch Registry Editor, goto:
HKLMSoftwareWidcomBTConfigGeneral

Edit “LaunchBtTrayAtWindowStartup”:
0×00000001 would enable bluetooth tray
0×00000000 would disable bluetooth tray

Other useful keys to edit:
DisplayTrayDeviceDisable
DontShowAdvanced
IconMyComputer
IconPrograms
IconStartMenu

By: Skip

Skip — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:03:00 +0000

Thank you… this info is very elusive. Worked perfectly.

By: Sdxt

Sdxt — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:02:00 +0000

I was not able to find the Bluetooth icon on the system tray. Thanks to this post, all I did was run BTTray on run command and it worked.