"Bluetooth" option missing from "Send to" menu in Windows 8

Symptom

When right-click a file in Windows 7, there is no “Bluetooth” option in “Send to” menu, see Fig.1. How to resolve it?

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Affected configurations

The above symptom may occur on the following operating system:

Microsoft Windows 7

Solution

Optimizing system with an optimizer tool or other wrong actions might cause “Send to Bluetooth” shortcut missed. However, this shortcut could be retrieved by the following methods:

Method one: Modeless command

1. Click “Start”,type “fsquirt” and then click “fsquirt.exe” in the result list.

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2. Select “Send files”

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Select the device (Phone or laptop) that you want to send your files to

 

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3. Select the files that you want to send

 

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4. Click “Next” to connect the received device and send files.

 

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5. If there is no any Bluetooth device listed under “Select where to send your files”, see Fig.6:

 

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6. Please check whether two Bluetooth-related services are enabled in “Services” Window. ( Press “Win+R” to open “Run” dialogue box, type “services.msc” and click “OK to open “Services” Window)

 

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7. If these two Bluetooth services are “Disabled” or  “Manual” in “Startup” type, right-click them respectively, select “Properties” and set “Startup type” as “Automatic”. Click “Start” under “Service status” and then click “OK”. See Fig.8:

 

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 Method two: Modify “Send to” menu 

1. Click “Start”, type “shell:sendto”, then click “shell:sendto” to open.

 

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 In this “Send to” window, you will see all shortcuts displayed in “Send to” menu and there is no “Bluetooth” icon.

 

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2. Double-click “Computer” icon on the desktop and then open C:\\Windows\\System32. Find out "fsquirt.exe" in “System32” file, and this is the Bluetooth program by which the PC sends a file.

 

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3. Right-click “fsquirt” and select “Create shortcut”. Cope the shortcut and paste it to “Send to” file. Right-click “fsquirt” in “Send to” file and select “Rename”. You can rename it as “Bluetooth”.

 

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4. After finishing above settings, right-click the file that you want to send by Bluetooth and you will see “Bluetooth” from the drop-down list. 

 

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