{"id":601,"date":"2015-02-03T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=601"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:49:47","slug":"devices-and-printers-is-blank-hangs-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Devices and Printers&#8217; is blank, hangs, empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2000px-Bluetooth_svg_w150.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-605\" src=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2000px-Bluetooth_svg_w150.png\" alt=\"2000px-Bluetooth_svg_w150\" width=\"150\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>If you try accessing &#8216;Devices and Printers&#8217; from Control Panel and the system hangs\u00a0or does not return any device, this could be caused by a not-so-perfect driver written for a Bluetooth adapter. The problem may cause other seemingly unrelated symptoms such as printers being offline for no reason.<\/p>\n<p>Try the following and see if this will resolve the issue:<\/p>\n<p>Click Start button, type &#8220;services&#8221; into the search program and files box. This brings up a list in the menu, select Services. This should open a list of local services on your system. Find &#8216;Bluetooth Service&#8221; and make sure it has started, right click and set to &#8216;automatic&#8217;. Select &#8220;Bluetooth Support Service&#8221; and start, set to automatic. Restart the system.<\/p>\n<p>The above steps apply to a Windows 7 system. Similar procedures are available for other versions of Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you try accessing &#8216;Devices and Printers&#8217; from Control Panel and the system hangs\u00a0or does not return any device, this could be caused by a not-so-perfect driver written for a Bluetooth adapter. The problem may cause other seemingly unrelated symptoms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}