Apple's bluetooth keyboard and mouse on windows xp

[JonathanSmith68]

I wasn't sure where to put this but since it deals with Apple's very own Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse, I figured this might be the place to go for answers.

First off, I'm not 100% sure if this will work, but I'm trying to use apples bluetooth keyboard and mouse with a bluetooth USB dongle on my PC, running Windows XP sp2.

I figure that since Apple has released boot camp, and I found this page on apples website, explaining how to use your BT keyboard/mouse with Windows XP (running on a mac). I also found some success stories of people doing similar things, also on a mac though.

So I figured, it's bluetooth, there is windows drivers available (though I don't know if this is for the keyboard itself, or if its for the actual bluetooth card located inside the mac, to work nicely with Windows) but what I'm wondering is if I did infact get a USB bluetooth adapter, would this play nicely with the Apple BT Keyboard.

I did find this which states that the BT keyboard will work and they actually recomend the "D-Link DBT-120 USB Bluetooth Adapter." I found it here on newegg. Not too bad price, though I do hate d-link. I realize that they probably mean this will work on a Mac if you infact have a non-bluetooth mac.

Basically what I'm asking here is if anyone has any ideas if this would work. If this would basically work with any Bluetooth USB adapter that'd be great. I'm assuming apple goes out of their way to recomend this d-link one is becasue of the fact it seems to work seamlessly with the Mac OS (as the newegg reviews seem to show).

If any bluetooth USB adapter will work you think, what are some of the better ones? I could check the reviews for the highest reviewed one, but any personal testimonies would be great. Thanks for any of the information that I do acquire! :D

[peter_uk]

i got it working fine in mine using a standard bluetooth adaptor, not sure on the make but it isnt a dlink one.

and not all off the keys will work like the ones at the top right hand side

[JonathanSmith68]

Nevermind I found this older neowin thread about the topic. I think I'll just go with the d-link usb bt adapter.

[Skylon]

  JonathanSmith68 said:

Nevermind I found this older neowin thread about the topic. I think I'll just go with the d-link usb bt adapter.

"bedammit's" (18 April 2006) suggested method of setting Windows Register file PinCodeWord to 1111 worked well for me using a D-Link DBT-122 dongle . However, my question is how secure is this method, does the pairing method compromise the encryption process.