When there’s a faulty or corrupted Bluetooth driver on your PC, it’ll be unable to connect your Bluetooth devices or pair your phone. Even if your Bluetooth devices (such as headphones or speakers) are connected, you may have stuttering sounds, or even no sound coming out. To resolve this issue, you’ll need to reinstall your Bluetooth driver. In today’s post, we’ll show you how to reinstall the Bluetooth driver on Windows.

  1. Uninstall the Bluetooth driver through Device Manager
  2. Automatically reinstall the Bluetooth driver

Before we start the procedures, please check that Bluetooth is turned on. Here’s how to do it:

  1. Click the Action Centre icon on the taskbar.
  2. If Bluetooth is turned off, click it to turn it on.

Now, proceed with the steps below.

1. Uninstall the Bluetooth driver through Device Manager

Device Manager is where you can update, disable, uninstall, or roll back your device drivers. Here’s how to uninstall the Bluetooth driver:

  1. On your keyboard, press the Windows logo key and X together and select Device Manager.
  2. Double-click to expand the category Bluetooth, right-click your Bluetooth driver, and select Uninstall device.
  3. If you’re prompted to uninstall your Bluetooth driver, tick the box and click the Uninstall button.

Once uninstalled, you can restart your computer and let Windows automatically reinstall the Bluetooth driver for you. Either way, you can use Driver Techie to do this for you.

2. Automatically reinstall the Bluetooth driver

Now you can reinstall your Bluetooth driver in a different way with the help of Driver Techie. Its ever-growing driver database allows you to always have access to the latest device drivers that you need.

More importantly, Driver Techie helps you resolve all other driver-related issues, and simplifies the driver update process. All it takes is just 3 clicks (for Pro users), and all your drivers are updated.

To use Driver Techie to find you the latest drivers:

  1. Download and install Driver Techie, then launch it.
  2. Click Scan Now.
  3. After the scan, select all the drivers you need to update and click Update All. Then all your drivers will be updated automatically without you having to do anything else.

Please note that Update All is available for Pro subscribers only, otherwise, you can only manually update the driver one at a time. To see how to manually update the drivers one by one, please check this post.

If you’re a Pro user of Driver Techie, and need our technical support to help with reinstalling the Bluetooth driver, please feel free to contact <support@drivertechie.com>. And if you have any ideas to share, please leave a comment down below.