In my last post I talked about Bluetooth. I have a mixed luck testing anything related to this technology…
You see, there is that one more potential persistence mechanism associated with Bluetooth which I was unable to test successfully. Despite my efforts it didn’t work, but this is probably because I don’t have a proper set up. Perhaps people owning a laptop with the Windows 8 on it (and not Windows 8.1 or newer) could give it a go… It is another documented feature of Windows, so it should work.
So… there is a thing called ‘Bluetooth Software Radio Switch Function Prototypes’ described on the Microsoft page here.
Adding the entry
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HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ BTHPORT\Parameters\Radio Support\ SupportDLL = Path to DLL
should allow vendors to register a DLL that will handle requests to Bluetooth radio to switch it on or off.
The Microsoft page provides a link to another page that is describing the sample source code demonstrating to programmers how to build your own supporting DLL. The funny thing is that the demo code uses a different key (BthServ instead of BTHPORT service) than the previous page, and a Unicode path instead of an ANSI path provided in the documentation. Searching for strings within c:\windows directory I could find references to BTHPORT\Parameters\Radio Support and not BthServ\Parameters\Radio Support so the documentation is probably okay, and the demo is not.
Well, in any case. It should work.