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Stop Broadcom Stack Displaying Browser

One of the features of the Broadcom stack is that when you attempt to connect to a virtual COM port it will show the user the Bluetooth Manager and ask them to select a paired device to connect to. You can suppress this and have it always connect to the last used device. You’ll need to write to the registry key:-


HKLM/Software/Widcomm/BTConfig/AutoConnect/0008


Create a DWORD value named BTBrowserEnabled and set the value to 0. If you want to re-enable this feature you can reset the value to 1.

By Peter Foot

Microsoft Windows Development MVP