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What does Windows do differently when I plug a USB device in, comparing to when I have a disabled USB device (device manager) and I'm enabling it? I want to apply a workaround for an issue with my PS4 Platinum Wireless Headset connected to Windows 10. USB dongle for this headset only starts looking for the Headset when I unplug and plug the dongle back in - it doesn't do that when I disable it in Device Manager, and enable it again. I also tried to use devcon.exe which comes with Windows Driver Kit - restarting, or disabling/enabling device using this tool doesn't work either.

Kamil Przygodzki
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Plugging, enabling and many other actions create events that are reported by Windows. Some events gets reported to all executing processes, such a pending shutdown request. Other events leave traces in the Windows Event Log. Some Windows components and some third-party products listen to these events and take action when they pertain to their domain.

In your case, (un)plugging a USB device and enabling/disabling it are separate events, where one does not cause the other. Evidently, the enabling/disabling event is not picked up by the Bluetooth discovery service.

If you are enabling/disabling the device in order to stop it from auto-connecting automatically when you boot, you might take a look at the post How do I keep my bluetooth headphones from connecting to my windows 10 machine when it's connected to my phone?, where an alternate solution was to disable/enable the Bluetooth Support system service:

net stop bthserv
net start bthserv
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  • Thanks, I will try to dig dipper into "Events world" and see if i can distinguish what happens when i plug the dongle in. PS4 Wireless Headset Use some other means of wireless communication instead of bluetooth, and comes with an USB dongle which communicate with the headset. – Kamil Przygodzki Jun 15 '19 at 01:34