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    Question about the Driver's and Utilities Disc

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jtb1987, Jul 5, 2008.

  1. jtb1987

    jtb1987 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just reformatted all my drives, installed XP, and have now reinstalled Vista to dual boot. I have this driver's and utilities disc that came with the computer (the one that everyone gets) but I'm unsure of exactly how to reinstall the drivers for Vista so that everything looked and is running as before (minus the bloatware). Do I just click on my system and go through the list, installing everything?
     
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  2. ckh20051988

    ckh20051988 Notebook Consultant

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    It's really up to you which driver to install and in whatever order you please. Just as long as you install all drivers that you think you need. For example, suppose you have a dedicated graphic card such as NVIDIA 8600M GT, you can look up a corresponding driver on DELL's support website and download from that site (won't even need that Driver's and Utilities disc). Or suppose you have speakers on your laptop (which obviously you must have), you will look for the corresponding audio driver from DELL's support website. Here is a link to DELL support (you can actually just GOOGLE it):
    http://support.dell.com/
    Click on Drivers and Download, then look up your pc (by the way, I am assuming that you are using a DELL, otherwise, you go to the pc manufacturer's website).
    I would like to add that you should only install obvious drivers that you want such as video, audio, maybe WIFI, bluetooth, webcam, and probably update your BIOS. Lacking drivers does not hurt, you can install next time - anytime. But just install those you are 100% sure you will need them, otherwise, they are most probably bloatwares to you.
     
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