Disable Bluetooth Dongles in Kernel Mode

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Hi
I want to block users from accessing the internet via Bluetooth Network Connections. (They have access to internet via LAN though)
In Windows Vista and 7 I can disable the bthserv service in user mode, but I can’t find a general method that works in XP, so I thought maybe I could implement it in kernel mode.
How can I achieve that in kernel mode? (I have experience with kernel mode drivers, but I haven’t worked with hardware devices in kernel)

Thanks in advance

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Disabling bthserv disables almost all bth functionality, not just pan, including pairing. And it is microsodt specifix, there are other bth stacks out there. If you want to disable bth on general, just disable the bth dongle in device manager. If you want to disable pan, just disable the bthpan driver. Xp IIRC did not ship with pan support.

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Subject: [ntdev] Disable Bluetooth Dongles in Kernel Mode

Hi
I want to block users from accessing the internet via Bluetooth Network Connections. (They have access to internet via LAN though)
In Windows Vista and 7 I can disable the bthserv service in user mode, but I can’t find a general method that works in XP, so I thought maybe I could implement it in kernel mode.
How can I achieve that in kernel mode? (I have experience with kernel mode drivers, but I haven’t worked with hardware devices in kernel)

Thanks in advance

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Thank you
I found a solution: Subscribe to device arrival and removal via WM_DEVICECHANGE and RegisterDeviceNotification.
This is what I wanted:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/HwDetect.aspx