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Ask a question and give support. Join the community here , it only takes a minute. The partitions for Media Direct must be set up before the installation of Microsoft Windows otherwise pressing the Media Direct Button while the system is powered down can corrupt your Operating System. It should look like the following:.
Power down your computer. Select option 1 recommended or option 2. Note: The application must be installed after the system drivers while on the Windows Desktop Step 14a.
This will begin the Windows setup. The first screen of the setup will prompt you to press F6 if you are needing to install a SATA driver from a floppy diskette. This screen flashes in a couple of seconds, if you miss it you will have to press F3 2 screens down and start again.
The next screen is important. Here you may create a partition, or delete any existing partitions. The way you do this is optional. I am just going to select the largest partition and select Enter.
It will then begin to format. Once it is formatted Windows will begin to copy files to the partition. The setup will copy all the files and then reboot the computer. The computer will restart and the setup will continue.
You will be asked to input your Regional and Language options American is usually default. Select customise and change to your own preferences I have selected U. Click OK and then select details to ensure the keyboard is also set to as your desired.
Select OK and finally change the top from US to your personal preference or the American Keyboard layout will still selected. Select OK. In the next screen enter your name and organisation. You will then be asked for network settings, choose typical unless you want to configure everything yourself.
Choose a Workgroup, just make one up of your own and put all your home computers on it or choose a Domain if you have a large organisation. Don't worry if it looks bad, likely the Video drivers aren't installed yet. The setup is almost finished. Here the Welcome to Windows XP Theme starts playing unfortunately most people don't hear it as the sound drivers aren't installed at this point Click next. You will be asked for network settings, most people won't have their network drivers isntalled so i recommend just selecting skip.
Note for non-Dell Media you will likely have to input a product key. For Dell media this and activation should be sorted out automatically in the BIOs. Note for XP Media Centre Edition there will be a few additional steps, it will install the Media Centre Edition programs, you shouldn't touch your computer at this point. It often works out better installing the latest Service Pack and Internet Explorer before installing the system drivers Downloaded at Step. It prevents a great deal of problems with Windows Update.
The Installation of Microsoft. Ensure you keep to the order listed above for best results. You should again have downloaded these at Step 4 and have them readily accessible on a USB stick or External Harddrive. Running the. For some older systems the drivers will have individual instructions which you will need to follow. Unfortunately often no installer runs and the file just extracts.
To actually install the driver you will need to navigate to the folder where the driver extracted to and run any setup. Many users think they have installed the driver when they haven't.
We will take for example R the chipset driver for my Latitude D Double click the downloaded. Select yes. Select Ok. At this stage the setup should start and you should follow through with the installation. If it does not the driver is not installed. I usually tell it not to reboot until I install all the drivers it is faster this way and always worked for me however it is probably best to reboot when prompted.
You will get a prompt if you need to activate. If using a Dell disc on a Dell system in the method described above, then this shouldn't happen. Press the [Windows] and [Pause Break] or go to start, right click computer and click properties. If you have an error, you likely have not installed a system driver and should quickly check that you haven't missed downloading or installing something. Right click the device with the error and select properties.
Go to the driver tab and select Hardware IDs. If you wish you can check the Windows Update Catalogue with this information. In order to help us assist you with driver issues on the forums, start a new post in the Microsoft OS forum , include the above information alongside the model of Dell and the Operating System.
Note restart your computer after installing all the drivers and then recheck for an error. I also recommend installation of WIndows Firewall Control. So I am not going to argue or force my opinion here.
Just ensure that you install a security suite that you trust. Microsoft Office is not downloadable and you should have a separate installation CD and Product Key for it. For Office use your product key obtained by Belarc advisor Step 1. For more details about the Microsoft Product Identification Card see here.
Microsoft Office will require a product key, you will need to purchase one if you don't have one. Microsoft Works does not require any product key. If you don't have a Microsoft Office license 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. Users may also install Windows Live Essentials Suite. Follow the instructions here.
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. It may not be compatible with very old Windows XP systems. Dell Dock is also not provided on the drivers and downloads page.
Here is the download link Dell Dock. Copy the files from your external hard drive backup to my documents, my pictures and my videos. You may need to install an addin when you get to Microsoft Update select "run Add-on":. Select Software optional and review any optional updates you wish to install. Select install now to the left, this will take you to the review and install updates.
Select Install Updates at the top of this list. Visit Windows Update again to check if there are any more updates. Some more may be listed that required the previous updates to be correctly installed. You may need to do this 2 or 3 times. It will tell you when 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. 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 their 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:. We also recommend that you backup your data before you use this command. If the fixmbr command detects an invalid or non-standard partition table signature, the fixmbr command prompts you for permission before rewriting the MBR.
The fixmbr command is supported only on xbased computers. For more information about Recovery Console, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. For more information about how to troubleshoot startup problems in Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
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