[FingerGum88]

So, before I upgraded to Windows 8, I used 7. I bought a Bluetooth dongle and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, and it worked really well. After upgrading, I reinstalled the Bluetooth adapter and re-paired the keyboard. All was well until just a few days ago when out of nowhere the keyboard stopped working. Going into the PC settings, it shows the keyboard still in my device list as "offline" and when I attempt to remove it, it fails. I've also tried removing it through the device window through the desktop, but to no avail and I've paired the keyboard to my iPad 2 to erase the pairing with my laptop.

What can I do to get the Apple keyboard out of my device list??

[compnovo]

FingerGum88, on 19 January 2013 - 02:51 PM, said:

So, before I upgraded to Windows 8, I used 7. I bought a Bluetooth dongle and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, and it worked really well. After upgrading, I reinstalled the Bluetooth adapter and re-paired the keyboard. All was well until just a few days ago when out of nowhere the keyboard stopped working. Going into the PC settings, it shows the keyboard still in my device list as "offline" and when I attempt to remove it, it fails. I've also tried removing it through the device window through the desktop, but to no avail and I've paired the keyboard to my iPad 2 to erase the pairing with my laptop.

What can I do to get the Apple keyboard out of my device list??

You're probably going to hate me for asking this, but: Did you try replacing the batteries in the keyboard?
Sorry, had to start somewhere....

[FingerGum88]

compnovo, on 19 January 2013 - 04:41 PM, said:

FingerGum88, on 19 January 2013 - 02:51 PM, said:

So, before I upgraded to Windows 8, I used 7. I bought a Bluetooth dongle and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, and it worked really well. After upgrading, I reinstalled the Bluetooth adapter and re-paired the keyboard. All was well until just a few days ago when out of nowhere the keyboard stopped working. Going into the PC settings, it shows the keyboard still in my device list as "offline" and when I attempt to remove it, it fails. I've also tried removing it through the device window through the desktop, but to no avail and I've paired the keyboard to my iPad 2 to erase the pairing with my laptop.

What can I do to get the Apple keyboard out of my device list??

You're probably going to hate me for asking this, but: Did you try replacing the batteries in the keyboard?
Sorry, had to start somewhere....

Yep. I've had it paired with my iPad so it's working. The problem is with 8, I guess. The keyboard still shows in my devices list and when I try to remove it, it just says it failed.

[compnovo]

FingerGum88, on 19 January 2013 - 04:51 PM, said:

compnovo, on 19 January 2013 - 04:41 PM, said:

FingerGum88, on 19 January 2013 - 02:51 PM, said:

So, before I upgraded to Windows 8, I used 7. I bought a Bluetooth dongle and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, and it worked really well. After upgrading, I reinstalled the Bluetooth adapter and re-paired the keyboard. All was well until just a few days ago when out of nowhere the keyboard stopped working. Going into the PC settings, it shows the keyboard still in my device list as "offline" and when I attempt to remove it, it fails. I've also tried removing it through the device window through the desktop, but to no avail and I've paired the keyboard to my iPad 2 to erase the pairing with my laptop.

What can I do to get the Apple keyboard out of my device list??

You're probably going to hate me for asking this, but: Did you try replacing the batteries in the keyboard?
Sorry, had to start somewhere....

Yep. I've had it paired with my iPad so it's working. The problem is with 8, I guess. The keyboard still shows in my devices list and when I try to remove it, it just says it failed.

Perhaps this might help point you in the right direction:
http://newsandguides...with-windows-8/
It looks like it may have something to do with the keyboard going to sleep, but I'm not well versed in Apple hardware.