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Jun 8, 2018 · Dell keeps prompting me to run their SupportAssist utility to "let my computer work at its best" or words to that effect. i have a Dell desktop (XPS 8700) and a Dell laptop (Inspiron 5537).
Feb 13, 2015 · 3. March 24th, 2015 06:00. Hi guys, Thanks for the post! SupportAssist is officially provided by Dell to provide a more proactive support experience for our customers. SupportAssist automatically detects known hardware and software failures and automates actions to recover from these failures.
Jun 21, 2019 · The affected products include Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs version 2.0 and SupportAssist for Home PCs version 3.2.1 and older. According to Dell's own website, SupportAssist is used by ...
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- SupportAssist and Others
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- So, Should I Let It Run?
In recent years, major computer manufacturers include utilities that perform a variety of duties. Most commonly they update drivers and often the computer’s BIOS, but they sometimes include additional features, such as file cleanup and various types of performance tuning. The appeal of these utilities is that they make assumptions about the type of...
Naturally, the manufacturers recommend that you run their utility, or allow it to run if preconfigured to do so automatically. Furthermore, they recommend you take any and all updates offered by the utility. When reaching out to a manufacturer for assistance, I’d also expect them to insist, or at least strongly encourage, you run the utility to bri...
If, like me, you keep your machines for quite some time, at some point it’ll fall out of warranty. The SupportAssist tool will report this as support being “expired”. It may try to encourage you to pay for a service contract extension. In fact, it may try hard. First, that’s completely optional. You do not need to renew the service contract. You ca...
I let SupportAssist run. My Dell computers come with it, it runs on a schedule, and I just let it happen. If it informs me I have a driver or BIOS update available, I take them. This proved particularly useful when I was fighting docking station issueswith my Dell Latitude last year. Eventually, those issues just went away by virtue of taking updat...
May 10, 2019 · If you have a Dell computer, your system’s security may be at risk due to a program likely preinstalled on your machine. The issue is with Dell’s SupportAssist program, which the company touts as “the first automated proactive and predictive support solution for PCs and tablets.” Vulnerability found in Dell’s SupportAssist: How to fix it
Jun 24, 2021 · I have a 6 year old Dell desktop (XPS 8700), originally WIn 7 Pro, "legacy" (BIOS) boot mode, BIOS A14 installed 5/31/2019 using Dell SupportAssist, and a 6 year old Dell laptop (Inspiron 15R 5537 ...
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May 3, 2019 · It’s a potentially nasty one: Dell’s SupportAssist has administrator-level access to Windows and is designed to automatically install updates to your computer, and Demirkapi found a way to ...
