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Is there a way to share device between different windows os'es on the same machine?
What I mean is:
I've got 2 system partitions
I want to share Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 set(mouse + keyboard) connected via Bluetooth (Microsoft Transceiver 3 from set) without pairing them every time I boot to another system.
How to do that?
I have answered a similar post on :
Finding Bluetooth link key in Windows 7, to double pair a device on dualboot computer.
That post was for a similar problem when pairing multi-booted Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and the question was where does Windows 7 store its passkey, which is the 128-bit key that the devices exchange during pairing and use thereafter to encrypt all their Bluetooth traffic.
My answer at that time was to look into the registry key at :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BTHPORT\Parameters\Keys.
This key is protected and one has to change its owner to Administrators to access or even see its sub-keys.
In theory, if you pair the device with both Windows installations and then transport this registry key from the last-paired to the other, then both installations will be identical from the point of view of the bluetooth devices.
However, I do know that in Windows 8 many changes were done to the bluetooth protocol, so this is not guaranteed to work, but it would be interesting to see if this technique is still useful.
I suggest taking precautions before modifying the registry, at least to create a system restore point.
