App to toggle BT and Wifi on and off?

Rilot · 10 Feb 2006 at 10:46

My laptop has a button that switches wifi and BT on and off. What I want is an app that can achieve the same thing on a desktop. The problem is that with my car PC the BT and Wifi interferes with my radio but switching all the wifi and BT off by hand is a pain.

Any ideas?

Otacon · 10 Feb 2006 at 11:46

Disabling the network interface can be done with a bit of VBScripting I think, the problem will be the Bluetooth stack, as it can be third party. Are you using the generic Microsoft Bluetooth drivers/software?

Rilot · 10 Feb 2006 at 12:04

Widcomm at the moment.

Otacon · 10 Feb 2006 at 14:56

Hmm, there's little direct programatic access to that I can see. I wonder if this is an answer to both problems?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311272

A carefully written batch script could do the job with that.

Rilot · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:21

Genius. That's what I need.

Otacon · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:30

Gizza shout if you struggle to get it working. I haven't even looked at it properly yet, just read the blurb (at work, you see).

Rilot · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:56

Sorted. I've created 2 batch files. One that enables BT and Wifi and another that disables them.

This evening I'll write one that tests the state of BT and Wifi and toggles them to the other state.