Identifying drivers, Reinstalling drivers and utilities, Using windows device driver rollback – Dell Inspiron 530s (Mid 2007) User Manual

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Troubleshooting Tools

Dell ships your computer to you with required drivers already installed—no
further installation or configuration is needed.

NOTICE:

The Drivers and Utilities media may contain drivers for operating systems

that are not on your computer. Ensure that you are installing software appropriate
for your operating system.

Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with your Microsoft
Windows operating system. You may need to install drivers if you:

Upgrade your operating system.

Reinstall your operating system.

Connect or install a new device.

Identifying Drivers

If you experience a problem with any device, identify whether the driver is the
source of your problem and, if necessary, update the driver.

1 Click Start

, and right-click Computer.

2 Click Properties→ Device Manager.

NOTE:

The

User Account Control (located to the left under Tasks window)

may appear. If you are an administrator on the computer, click

Continue;

otherwise, contact your administrator to continue.

Scroll down the list to see if any device has an exclamation point (a yellow
circle with a [

!]) on the device icon.

If an exclamation point is next to the device name, you may need to reinstall the
driver or install a new driver (see "Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities" on page 92).

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities

NOTICE:

The Dell Support website at

support.dell.com and your Drivers and

Utilities

media provide approved drivers for Dell™ computers. If you install drivers

obtained from other sources, your computer might not work correctly.

Using Windows Device Driver Rollback

If a problem occurs on your computer after you install or update a driver, use
Windows Device Driver Rollback to replace the driver with the previously
installed version.

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