How to completely remove a Bluetooth device from Win 10?

xzion said:

wouldn't normally necro a thread but i spent two weeks trawling the internet trying to sort this out and this thread is pretty high up on the search rankings, hopefully can help someone.

My symptoms:
- Previously working bluetooth speaker (UE BOOM 2 in my case) stops connecting
- Windows 10 'Bluetooth and other devices' menu shows the device as Paired
- Pressing connect makes it attempt to connect but fails then it goes back to Paired
- Remove device hides the device from the menu, but as soon as you turn bluetooth on and off, or restart the computer, the device comes back
- You pull your hair out.

Solution that worked for me after much, much unsuccessful internet trawling and one system restore:
- Download this 7 year old command line bluetooth toolset: Bluetooth command line tools - work with bluetooth from the command line
- Install it, make sure you enable the option to "Add Bluetooth Command Line Tools directory to path"
- Open Powershell
- Put your device that isn't working properly into pairing mode
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMAND WILL UNPAIR ALL BLUETOOTH DEVICES
- type in "btpair -u"
- Boom, all of a sudden Windows asks me if I want to allow pairing to my device that isn't working
- Hit yes, successfully connected again
- Cry tears of joy

God I hope that helps someone else.

Thank you so much for this solution! It worked for me! I'm crying tears of joy too!

Just some information to hopefully make the google search on this more easy....

For me I had problems with my Dell XPS 9570 and my Bose QuitComfort 35 headphones. I was unable to remove the device from the bluetooth device list and from the system device list and therefore not able to find and connect the headphones anymore.

xzion said:

wouldn't normally necro a thread but i spent two weeks trawling the internet trying to sort this out and this thread is pretty high up on the search rankings, hopefully can help someone.

My symptoms:
- Previously working bluetooth speaker (UE BOOM 2 in my case) stops connecting
- Windows 10 'Bluetooth and other devices' menu shows the device as Paired
- Pressing connect makes it attempt to connect but fails then it goes back to Paired
- Remove device hides the device from the menu, but as soon as you turn bluetooth on and off, or restart the computer, the device comes back
- You pull your hair out.

Solution that worked for me after much, much unsuccessful internet trawling and one system restore:
- Download this 7 year old command line bluetooth toolset: Bluetooth command line tools - work with bluetooth from the command line
- Install it, make sure you enable the option to "Add Bluetooth Command Line Tools directory to path"
- Open Powershell
- Put your device that isn't working properly into pairing mode
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMAND WILL UNPAIR ALL BLUETOOTH DEVICES
- type in "btpair -u"
- Boom, all of a sudden Windows asks me if I want to allow pairing to my device that isn't working
- Hit yes, successfully connected again
- Cry tears of joy

God I hope that helps someone else.

I love you so much, you helped me with weeks of trouble connecting my DS4, I just registered to say thank you!

KeithM said:

There's a similar long-running discussion in the Microsoft communities that I recently came across: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...5-93e96c47f7ff
Working from the signature provided by LFLFM, I came uip the following PowerShell code, which removes devices that have paired incorrectly so the can be re-paired. Just copy & paste into PowerShell -- no downloads required!

Code:

$Source = @"
   [DllImport("BluetoothAPIs.dll", SetLastError = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
   [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
   static extern UInt32 BluetoothRemoveDevice(IntPtr pAddress);

   public static UInt32 Unpair(UInt64 BTAddress) {
      GCHandle pinnedAddr = GCHandle.Alloc(BTAddress, GCHandleType.Pinned);
      IntPtr pAddress     = pinnedAddr.AddrOfPinnedObject();

      UInt32 result       = BluetoothRemoveDevice(pAddress);
      pinnedAddr.Free();
      return result;
   }
"@

Function Get-BTDevice {
    Get-PnpDevice -class Bluetooth |
      ?{$_.HardwareID -match 'DEV_'} |
         select Status, Class, FriendlyName, HardwareID,
            # Extract device address from HardwareID
            @{N='Address';E={[uInt64]('0x{0}' -f $_.HardwareID[0].Substring(12))}}
}

################## Execution Begins Here ################

$BTR       = Add-Type -MemberDefinition $Source -Name "BTRemover"  -Namespace "BStuff" -PassThru
$BTDevices = @(Get-BTDevice) # Force array if null or single item
Do {
   If ($BTDevices.Count) {
      "`n******** Bluetooth Devices ********`n" | Write-Host
      For ($i=0; $i -lt $BTDevices.Count; $i++) {
         ('{0,5} - {1}' -f ($i+1), $BTDevices[$i].FriendlyName) | Write-Host
      }
      $selected = Read-Host "`nSelect a device to remove (0 to Exit)"
      If ([int]$selected -in 1..$BTDevices.Count) {
         'Removing device: {0}' -f $BTDevices[$Selected-1].FriendlyName | Write-Host
         $Result = $BTR::Unpair($BTDevices[$Selected-1].Address)
         If (!$Result) {"Device removed successfully." | Write-Host}
         Else {"Sorry, an error occured." | Write-Host}
      }
   }
   Else {
      "`n********* No devices foundd ********" | Write-Host
   }
} While (($BTDevices = @(Get-BTDevice)) -and [int]$selected)

Keith

Dude, TY! Literally the only solution besides formatting my OS. TY!!

derdigga said:

Dude, TY! Literally the only solution besides formatting my OS. TY!!

You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback.

As some others here, I registered just to thank the author, and allow some with the same problems I was facing to FINALLY solve them.
These prehistoric tools helped me :
* unpair (and re-connect) my Logitech K810 keyword (which WIn was refusing to do)
* properly pair my Bose QC 35 II with my laptop Dell XPS 13 9350

Note: I replaced the Dell 1820A Wifi board in my XPS with a Killer AX 1650 (and now have "real" full speed on wifi ac 5Ghz networks + a functionning bluetooth stack...)

xzion said:

wouldn't normally necro a thread but i spent two weeks trawling the internet trying to sort this out and this thread is pretty high up on the search rankings, hopefully can help someone.

My symptoms:
- Previously working bluetooth speaker (UE BOOM 2 in my case) stops connecting
- Windows 10 'Bluetooth and other devices' menu shows the device as Paired
- Pressing connect makes it attempt to connect but fails then it goes back to Paired
- Remove device hides the device from the menu, but as soon as you turn bluetooth on and off, or restart the computer, the device comes back
- You pull your hair out.

Solution that worked for me after much, much unsuccessful internet trawling and one system restore:
- Download this 7 year old command line bluetooth toolset: Bluetooth command line tools - work with bluetooth from the command line
- Install it, make sure you enable the option to "Add Bluetooth Command Line Tools directory to path"
- Open Powershell
- Put your device that isn't working properly into pairing mode
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMAND WILL UNPAIR ALL BLUETOOTH DEVICES
- type in "btpair -u"
- Boom, all of a sudden Windows asks me if I want to allow pairing to my device that isn't working
- Hit yes, successfully connected again
- Cry tears of joy

God I hope that helps someone else.

I've tried both this soultion and the powershell one but neither one of them will rid me of the Razer Atheris bluetooth mouse. I don't know what to do, the bluetooth cli-commands just seem to hang and the copy-paste script keeps saying there was an error.
I don't know what to do

Hi all, unfortunately the PowerShell Code didn't work for me, but here's what did.

Let me first say my problem arose after I switched out and upgraded the Wireless and Bluetooth half-height mini PCIe card in my PC (Intel NUC). The new BT card with upgraded drivers didn't work with the previously paired Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I can't remember the exact sequence of my Windows 10 troubleshooting steps, but it goes something as follows:

· put the PC in Windows Airplane mode, go into Device Manager, View > Show hidden devices
· right click on anything that's grey-out (in light blue) > Uninstall device
· turn off Airplane mode
· device should be removed/removable from Control Panel > Devices and Printers and/or Settings/Bluetooth & other devices
· uninstall BT drivers, re-install BT drivers (Intel Bluetooth Drivers 7260 family for me)
· re-pair Bluetooth devices

I initially skipped the 2nd last step and was still able to re-pair my BT keyboard and mouse. However, they did not maintain a stable BT connection until I reinstalled the BT drivers. Hope this helps someone. Cheers.

bungee said:

Hi all, unfortunately the PowerShell Code didn't work for me, but here's what did.

Let me first say my problem arose after I switched out and upgraded the Wireless and Bluetooth half-height mini PCIe card in my PC (Intel NUC). The new BT card with upgraded drivers didn't work with the previously paired Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I can't remember the exact sequence of my Windows 10 troubleshooting steps, but it goes something as follows:

· put the PC in Windows Airplane mode, go into Device Manager, View > Show hidden devices
· right click on anything that's grey-out (in light blue) > Uninstall device
· turn off Airplane mode
· device should be removed/removable from Control Panel > Devices and Printers and/or Settings/Bluetooth & other devices
· uninstall BT drivers, re-install BT drivers (Intel Bluetooth Drivers 7260 family for me)
· re-pair Bluetooth devices

I initially skipped the 2nd last step and was still able to re-pair my BT keyboard and mouse. However, they did not maintain a stable BT connection until I reinstalled the BT drivers. Hope this helps someone. Cheers.

I registered just to say THANK YOU! Your procedure is the only one that worked. I had tried everything else on the web as far as I could find (powershell scripts, bluetooth tools command prompt, device manager, registry edits, etc) and none of it could remove my bloody Sony headset (WH-1000XM3). For whatever reason I couldn't pair it anymore and couldn't remove it to re-pair. Everything's working fine now. +1 Internet for you good sir/madam.