Yesterday, I ran into a problem similar to the one I mentioned in one of my previous posts, but his time it concerned the Bluetooth adapter. Here’s how it all went. I was working on the laptop (it's really not that bad for typing once you get used to the keyboard), listening to music on my Bluetooth earbuds, when all of a sudden it stopped playing. When I checked the quick settings panel, I didn’t see the Bluetooth button there, nor could I detect any trace of the adapter in the Settings or the Device Manager. A reboot didn’t help, so I excluded a software problem (Note: it got updated to Win 11 23H2 some week or two before, but all that time it worked perfectly fine). My initial idea was that the adapter either went loose or died altogether (having been exposed to the laptop’s heat, or probably I unintentionally bumped it carrying in the bag, or simply because it’s a piece of cheap AliExpress hardware, you name it 😁). However, in the Device Manager, I spotted an unnamed troublesome device under the Universal Serial Bus Controller section. Looked like something that had lost its driver and couldn't work properly. After I updated its driver using the driver pack James kindly provided me with earlier and rebooted the system, the Bluetooth was back again! Has anyone experienced anything similar? If not, hopefully my case will be helpful if it happens. Cheers!
P.S.: Sorry, no screenshots to illustrate this time. I didn’t think to take any, my bad.
This is a common problem when windows updates in the background.