Driver for Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB - downloading and installing it

Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB is a Bluetooth hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Broadcom. USB/VID_0489&PID_E042 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB driver. The archive contains version 12.0.1.550 dated 2015-04-10 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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Broadcom applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 4582267 bytes (4.37 MB)
Driver rating 4.3 stars out of 66334 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. How to use DriverMax to install Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB driver

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, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and 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 find the Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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