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Just got my new Dell XPS 15 Laptop

Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by modhatter, Jul 30, 2011.

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Screen is really nice. Actually it's wider than I anticipated. I am just in the process of getting it set up and I have a question.

Should all the drivers be up to date being as it is new. I went to the Dell support Driver Update page and it is showing 43 driver updates. Now I don't know if they are all ready on the computer or not. I don't want to go through updating 43 drivers if not necessary.

What say you?

modhatter, Jul 30, 2011

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I'm of the opinion that unless a driver is causing problems, don't update it. The only ones you may want to update are the Intel and NVidia display drivers, but even then. All the drivers showing on the Dell Driver Update are not just updated drivers, they are all the possible drivers, and half of them won't even work on your system. For example, there are several wireless card drivers, well, only one is for whichever card you got, the others are for the other options.

Your system should have all the drivers it needs already installed. Updating isn't required.

madmattd, Jul 30, 2011

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Thank you again Madman. You came through for me again.

modhatter, Jul 30, 2011

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