This will happen automatically if you use the Dell disk. If it says activate Windows Now, click the link to activate. If you used the. Use the phone activation. It is a quick automated call, follow the onscreen instructions.
See here for more details on activation. If you have an error, yellow? You should quickly check that you haven't missed installation of a driver and check to see that something hasn't installed correctly. If you still can't find out what it is.
Right click the device with the error and select properties:. You should make a new post on the Microsoft OS Forum starting your model of Dell, the hardware ids and whether you have installed Windows Vista 32 bit or 64 bit. Next after the drivers are installed you should rate your system.
Click the link "system rating is not available". Note at this stage I would re-rate the system even a number is displayed there. Although people may not care so much for the system rating it is best to perform. Several unrated systems will revert to the Windows Vista Basic Theme even if they are capable of the Aero Interface and will not allow the user to change to the Windows Vista Theme until the system is rated.
So I am not going to argue or force my opinion here. Just ensure that you install a security suite that you trust. Links to Microsoft Office consumer preview which users may try for free for a limited period of time may be found in the same wiki. These installers require a product key. Use your product key obtained by Belarc advisor Step 1. For more details about the Microsoft Product Identification Card see here. If your system just came with Office Starter, you cannot download it from a official source however Office Starter is becoming redundant and not worth installing.
Instead you should use Microsoft Office Web Apps which has tight integration with SkyDrive and the same functionality or slightly more than Office Starter.
Microsoft Mathematics may also be installed, this is essentially a free graphics calculator for Microsoft Windows. Useful third party additions for the full versions of Microsoft Office are Mendeley Desktop Reference Manager and Mathtype both have free and paid versions.
The free versions should suffice most users. I highly recommend SkyDrive for Windows. This gives users a 7 GB free webdrive which can be accessed via the SkyDrive folder on your computer and within any web brower. Paid plans can give you GB storage. Everything that you put in this folder is automatically kept in sync between your computers PC or Mac and SkyDrive. Skip Step 14a if your system doesn't have Media Direct. For the systems with Dell Media Direct, once on the windows desktop, insert the media direct disc It should autorun, install the application, if it doesn't you should navigate to the WindowsMD3 folder and click setup.
Use the updater within Media Direct to get it to the latest version. For some unknown reason Dell does not provide Dell Webcam Software under the drivers and downloads page for most systems. Here is the download link Dell Webcam Software R You may wish to download the latest version of Skype before installing the webcam driver.
Dell Support Centre may be downloaded and installed from here. It only works on home systems and does not work on Precision, Latitude or Optiplex systems. Here is the standalone download link Dell Support Centre. Dell Dock is also not provided on the drivers and downloads page. Here is the download link Dell Dock. If you have everything on the external hard drive then ignore this step. Look about in this folder for anything else. Delete it when you have moved whatever you need as it is a very large folder and unnecessary once you have your new windows installed.
Note there is more information and an automated tool here. I recommend using unlocker to delete the Windows. Be careful when using this utility as you can cause damage to the windows installation if you delete the wrong file. You may get unlocker from here:. Ensure that you select the advanced install when installing unlocker as it is bundled with potentially unwanted programs e.
These will be installed by default on your system. Should you decided not to install an important update not generally recommended , uncheck the box for the update then right click then select Hide Update. The update I decided to disable is the browser choice update which is an unnecessary and annoying update in my opinion.
Select okay when done. Not the important updates is now as 1 update was disabled. I won't be prompted to install that annoying update again. Click install updates. The updates should download and install this may take a while you may be prompted to restart your computer a few times.
You should check Windows Update again after logging on until it tells you Windows is up to date. Therefore many users opt to stay clear of BIOs updates completely. I personally tend to update the BIOs if available after a clean install. On this screen is the model number and the BIOs revision.
The BIOs revision typically this of either 2 formats:. Restart computer. Then double click the file and run it as an administrator. Don't touch the computer until the BIOs update is complete. It should automatically log you off, update the BIOs and restart the computer. Don't power down the computer during the BIOs update as this will ensure your system is rendered completely useless.
Ensure both the battery is at full charge and the AC adaptor is plugged in when updating the BIOs on a laptop. Skip this step unless you are using 2 or monitors. This will give you a taskbar on each monitor completing your Windows experience. Note you get a 30 day free trial of each product; for the Actual Multiple Monitors after 30 days this will revert to the free version its worth having around.
The professional version is of course better and I recommend using it or Actual Windows Manager. See here for a comparison between the professional and free version. I wrote a small wiki on thier software here it needs updated however. For more software recommendations look to the bottom of my Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Downloads wiki.
When you can select the advanced setup. The larger software vendors e. Ask, Google, Bing microsoft pay for bundling their toolbars within the installer. Thus the cost of the software can be made lower or distributed for free in some cases.
The advanced setup allows users to disable installation of these toolbars and other programs which they don't want. For Internet Explorer 9 see:. Note some things work better in Internet Explorer than in the other browsers e. Firefox has a variety of third party extensions.
You can of course use all three and switch between them for individual tasks. That's everything done, you should have a fully functional system with peak performance. Please leave these in the comments below. If you are experiencing any further problems, post on the correct forum ensure that you provide basic information such as what Operating System you are trying to install or have installed e.
Windows 7 64 bit and the model of the Dell e. Dell XPS Feedback for these wikies and your overall forum experience is welcome in the Has the Forum Helped You? Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Obsolete wiki: This wiki is updated to pdf format here Windows Reinstallation Guide and several other wikies are combined into this pdf. Step 1. Back up your data. Step 2. Step 3. Obtaining Windows Vista Reinstallation Media - Notes You will be in one of three situations, quickly review the notes applicable for your Windows Vista license before deciding on what media to use: If reinstalling Windows Vista on a system that came with Windows Vista preinstalled by Dell a Dell Reinstallation DVD should be used wherever possible Step 3a.
Step 3a. Step 3b. Step 5a. Once the model is selected you need to select the correct OS: Once you have selected Windows Vista look at the categories Click the category to expand it e. If you get the following error message: Press back on the browser. In the address bar check the URL. If you experience a recurring problem when you use Internet Explorer in Windows, you may try to repair or reinstall the program to fix the problem.
Although this may sound intimidating, this article offers the most direct, trouble-free methods to perform this task. You can reset the program settings to repair your Internet Explorer.
To do this, use the following procedure:. Step 1: Download Internet Explorer that can be installed on your Operating system using the following table as guidance. Step 2: Uninstall the version of Internet Explorer that you may have installed on top of Internet Explorer 8.
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