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Upgrade DirectX?

Can I upgrade my DirectX version?

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Install Windows 7 on Dell XPS 8910 and Aurora R5

Hello guysI desperatly need your help. I'm tryng to downgrade some workstation XPS 8910 and Aurora R5 from Windows 10 to Windows 7.Unfortunaly we can't use yet Windows 10 and i have a lot of problem...

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Dell Windows Recovery Image Freezing

I am trying to download the recovery image from Dell and it has twice now frozen about half way. It isn't my connection as I am downloading at 100MB.I saw someone else had the same problem the other...

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How to disable touchpad on Dell Vostro 5568-9982 SSD 256 Core i5 7200U...

Hi all,I installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on this laptop model. Drivers for the touchpad I have not found. What are the ways to disable the touchpad? Can be in UEFI ? Or you can find a compatible driver?

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Problems with dell recovery programme

Don't know if anyone can help but here goes.I recently had to have my hard drive replaced on my laptop (dell inspiron 15R).  The recovery programme was initiated, and when it was compete I found I had...

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Downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7

I have a Dell Inspiron desktop that was pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home.  The computer was upgraded to Win 10 and now there's no wireless internet and I can't get it to recognize my WD My Book external...

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New XPS 15 9560 Log In

When I close the lid for sleep mode on my laptop, I then have a question to resolve when opening.When I open the lid the screen shows a picture with the time. I have to press a key or tap the touchpad....

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Inspiron 15 3521 (Windows 7 Home Premium x64): Disabling thumbnails for video...

I have a Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on a Dell Inspiron 15 3521 and I was wondering... how do you disable the thumbnails for only the videos?I already have a new driver installed last week and on the...

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OS installation on a new harddrive

I got the error code while running diagnostictest2000-0151validation 109663  incorrect status =32than I got2000-1042 validation 79093I bought a drive, installed it, started to load from supplied disk...

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Windows Update Fails At Updating Cumulative Updates

I have been to Microsoft board trying to fix the windows update. Every month it is a new KB # and it still won't updates these. Other updates have been updated. I went through all the troubleshooting...

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Laptop Shutting Off after a while

I have a Dell XPS 15 (9550).  I notice that after so much time, the computer shuts down.  I found this out because I would leave something running, go to wake it up from sleep mode, and it would boot...

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Can you re-install Windows after upgrades from 7 to 10?

I got an XPS 15 3 years ago. I think it had Windows 7 at the time so I've had it install every upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 10.Lately it's become ridiculously slow - taking 30 seconds or more to...

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We have purchased multiple Optiplex 3040 systems. they will not Activate windows

We have a number of Optiplex 3040 units that we purchased from DELL. These have been downgraded to Windows 7 SP1 using the Windows 10 downgrade licensing from DELL. They have the DELL factory Windows 7...

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Bitlocker asks for recovery key on Dell E5470

Hello,i have almost 300 machines Dell latitude E5470 with Windows 7 enterprise 64-bit. Each time we send critical and security updates from wsus and a user restart the machine, on these specific models...

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How to recover a Dell Inspiron One 2330 from a usd or DVD when original...

Hello,I am trying to recover a Dell Inspiron One 2330 computer. I tried to do it from a recovery DVD but it failed. Now I am trying to do it from a BIOS download from the Dell support web page but the...

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ShellExecute.exe & Dell Customer Connect

I have recently noticed, in Task Manager, multiple instances of ShellExecute.exe running at the same time and all related to  Dell Customer Connect .As many as ten times on one occasion, but with as...

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Laptop dell inspiron 5759 working very slow

My Laptop Dell Inspiron 5759 is working very slow. When I open a page must wait a lot. I have windows 10 installed. Don't know what happen, please help me with this big problem..Thank you.

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Windows vista business to windows 7

Good morning and congratulations for your forum.Sorry for translation.Please, I have an Optiplex 740 with windows vista oemact and many programs now seek at least Windows 7.Please, how to safely switch...

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Optipex 7010 - Shutdown after Windows Login

Hello,I am system administrator in a company where I have several Optipex 7010 and I have a problem that still cannot solve. In several Optipex 7010, if the user takes 4/ 5min to login on Windows, when...

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XPS8700 Changed broken down hard disk to activate window

My desktop XPS 8700 The hard disk broke down, I changed new hard disk, downloaded window 10 Home. Now it asks to activate window, which I can't because no product key. how to activate the window? (This...

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