Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Bluetooth USB Adapter is a Bluetooth hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications. USB/Vid_04F2&Pid_AFF1 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 7.3.0000.0100 released on 2011-01-10.
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3. Start the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which should be quite straightforward. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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There is no digital signature available for this driver.
Size of this driver: 129193 bytes (126.17 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 3.8 stars out of 26357 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. Installing the Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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