Bluetooth Connecting Help - Headphones not showing up.

When I've had a Bluetooth problem, I've deleted the Bluetooth device entries in
Control panel, Devices & printers
and this has let me set them up again from scratch.

Others have said that this does not always allow them to set Bluetooth devices up again and they have had to make use of this set of Bluetooth tools
Bluetooth command line tools
See xzions post about how to use these Bluetooth command line tools - TenForums
I have not had to use these tools myself but, as you'll see from the posts following xzions, other users thought they were very useful in resolving their problems.

Best of luck,
Denis

Does a Bluetooth entry show in Device manager, network adapters?

If not, go to the Acer support website then download & reinstall the Bluetooth driver.
- Check that Device manager has a Bluetooth section
- Then check the device is shown in Device manager, network adapters
- Then check the on/off switch shows in Settings, Devices, Bluetooth
Then try pairing again.

I once had a pair of earphones that would only pair with my computer if I had first unpaired them from my phone. Once they were paired with the computer, I was able to re-pair them with my phone. I never understood the logic of this.

Denis

I'm glad it's fixed.

If I suggested that now would be a suitable stage at which to make a system image on an external drive, would you know what I was talking about.

Denis

You shouldn't use the built-in utility 'Back up and restore (Windows 7)' utility you illustrated. MS said not to in their announcement of Windows 10 Version 1709 and have never withdrawn that warning

imaging deprecated in Ver 1709 - TenForums

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Macrium Reflect [free edition] is an imaging utility that is often recommended in this forum and is so well-known here that you can get plenty of help for it.

Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect - TenForumsTutorials
Macrium USB - TenForums

Macrium Software Macrium Reflect Free
Macrium Reflect KnowledgeBase - user guide [version-independent link]
The free trial is currently v8 and it reverts to a permanent free v7 after 30 days. I understand that v8 will be made available as the permanent free version before the end of August 2021.

It can also make bootable system images. This facility is called viBoot^^^.
Macrium viBoot - Macrium KB
Macrium viBoot - Create Virtual Machine using Macrium Image - TenForumsTutorials

^^^ viBoot used to require Windows 10 Pro because of the virtualisation method it worked with but v8 is more flexible. To find out if it really will work with Windows 10 Home, watch out for any progress made in New viBoot VM Options - TenForums

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Amongst the other system imaging utilities are:

1 Acronis True Image - Normally paid for but

- Owners of these disk brands can get free limited-capability versions from those companies.

Seagate-Samsung-Maxtor disks [they call their version DiscWizard] - online help index with user manual download link
WD disks - online help

- These free versions depend on the presence of that brand of disk both to make system images & to restore system images.
- The free versions allow full system imaging but not the incremental/differential imaging that the paid-for version allows.
- Their branded USB stick can be enough to allow them to work but an SD card is not.

2 AOMEI Backupper Standard Edition - Free Backup Software for Windows - Free version
3 EaseUS ToDo Backup - Free version
4 Paragon Backup & Recovery - Free version
[Links 2-4 provided by Paul Black]


All the best,
Denis

Anonymous007 said:

I assume then that you mean the Windows 10 settings tool, in Settings>Update and Security>Backup, and then insert a external drive and start that. If so, I will get started soon as I assume it will take a lot of time to backup 200gb.

No, I was focussing on system imaging.
- Restoring a system image overwrites the whole disk / partition with whatever was on it at the time the image was made and with all its properties.
- So imaging then restoring the OS drive would fix, say, a bad change to your system which stopped Windows working correctly.
- And imaging then restoring the whole disk containing the OS drive & its associated partitions would fix, say, a bad change to your system which stopped Windows booting.
- I make a new system image every month to protect me from any foulup at the next Windows update.

The item you mention is File history and this is a rolling backup of your files only rather than your system.
- Create a File History Backup - TenForuumsTutorials
- Providing for backing up your own files is also worthwhile but it is not a substitute for a system image.
- Your own files will change much more frequently than your OS & applications do so they require more frequent backing up.
- Your choice of backup utility is much wider than it is for system imaging. I just use batch files based on the built-in utility RoboCopy but that does take a fair bit of learning.
- I back up my own files at varying frequencies. Some key files are backed up every time they change, others are backed up every hour, others are backed up weekly.

Denis