Bluetooth driver always broken on startup, have to "reinstall" via updating the driver thru Device Manager every time

[BrandonAbbate]

I use a USB Realtek Bluetooth Driver (Realtek Bluetooth 5.0 Adapter) because my mobo doesn't have integrated BT, but after a Windows Update or two ago I noticed that the driver just doesn't start on launch like it should. When I check properties in Device Manager its status comes up as something along the lines of "The device could not start because it encountered problems." It's incredibly vague but it works again after I uninstall/reinstall it from Device Manager and recently found that just updating the driver via "Let me pick from available drivers on my computer" also kicks it into workin

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