TS3048 No BlueTooth icon in System Prefs 10.10

I have no BlueTooth icon in system preferences, so I cannot connect any wireless devices. It's a new Mac Mini (late 2014) running OS X 10.10.

Greetings,
I managed to fix the problem. I copied the SharingPref.prefPane from another OS X machine and now it works fine.
Regards,
Michael

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Click on the B icon on the top right menu bar if it's there but just greyed out and turn it back on.
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It seems you're going in panic!
First of all run mainteinance , look for system updates if any, and take care of any block key pressed
on your keyboard.
Do not abuse of Force Quit it 'd destroy preference applications, if your itunes take 3h to import your library you can setup in Energy Saver panel some tunings to protect lcd.
I think 3h to import a music library is not normal, can you post some other info about?
What can of device you are copying from?
Did you import ,when you set up your new iMac , an user from your old mac?
Take a look also at spotlight corner, if there's a little point inside the glass icon , spotlight is indexing your drive/s , this is normal on the first system's run and this 'd slow mac performance.

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