XPS 15 L501X & Displaying GPU Activity Issue

I think I'm the only one with this issue but I'm not able to see the option where I can select from the "View Menu" the option "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area"

I have an Nvidia 435M GPU and i7-840 CPU.

This is just what I have done so far with this laptop but it isn't the problem:
I was trying to update the Nvidia driver to version 260.99 but the installer said something about not being compatible, so I tried the modified inf from laptopvideo2go website and installed like that, I then wasn't able to open up the Nvidia Control Panel and also discovered that those drivers won't make Optimus work so I made a system restore to go back to the version 259.39 and checked if I could see the option, but no, I then unistalled the driver and install the updated driver from dell website and now I'm on version 259.51 with the same results.

The actual problem is that I didn't know about this GPU activity feature from the beginning and I also remember that I didn't have that option even before updating the driver or whatever, so what can it be that this option is not appearing to me, before and after updating this?

Reading Nvidia Control Panel help I also noticed that I don't see the option "Run with graphics processor" when right-clicking a program, so that means I can't choose which preferred GPU to use when opening the program.

Picture examples of what I mean can be seen on the attachments. And compared to the image I found on the Dell XPS 15 L501 *Owner's Lounge* thread I can confirm I don't have that option and something is wrong, image HERE

So any ideas of what to do? Need help.

Thanks in advance.


More information about the driver versions here:

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 12/27/2010 02:41:50
System name: USER-PC

[Display]
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GT 435M
Driver version: 259.51
CUDA Cores: 96
Core clock: 650 MHz
Shader clock: 1300 MHz
Memory clock: 800 MHz (1600 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 128-bit
Total available graphics memory: 4095 MB
Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB DDR3
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 2047 MB
Video BIOS version: 70.08.19.00.5D
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

[Components]

nvCplUIR.dll 3.3.560.26 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 3.3.560.26 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSSR.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvWSS.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvSR.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA Video Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA Video Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.12.5951 NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision
NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.12.5951 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.12.5951 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module (0)
nvDispSR.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA Display Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.12.5951 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.12.5951 NVIDIA Compatible Windows7 Display driver, Version 259.51
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.12.5951 NVIDIA CUDA 3.1.1 driver
nvGameSR.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 6.14.12.5951 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

 

DUDE!!! Only the i5 processor can have optimus since it has integrated graphics on board. The i7 processor doesn't have optimus so everything runs on the graphics processor. Hence the reason why you don't see GPU activity icon.