Send a File Over Bluetooth on Windows? Order Matters
The receiving machine goes first. Nothing on the sending side warns you that nobody is listening.

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The receiving machine goes first. Nothing on the sending side warns you that nobody is listening.
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Built in for years, needs nothing installed, and on most machines it has never once been switched on.
The tool runs on a working machine, so the day you need the drive is the day you can no longer make it.
One is a tick box and three clicks. The other moved your files somewhere else and never said so.
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There is nothing to download. You remove the driver and let Windows put it back, which is backwards from every other install.