Dell Precision Optimizer Owner's Manual

System Information

The maintenance page shows a summary of your system configuration. It also lists the available software updates for your system. The top banner displays the Dell Precision system make and model along with the Dell Service Tag. The following option appears on this banner:

Table 1. Option for System Information

Option	Function
	This icon will launch standard Windows utility that displays the detailed System Information

Dell System Updates are specific to Dell Precision Optimizer and your system's hardware and software configuration. Windows Updates are available within your operating system and not available through this module.

Update Filters

This page contains three sets of check boxes – one set for each of the above – allowing you to select/deselect updates based on their Criticality, Type and Device Category. Selected updates have a check mark before their names. It is not possible to select or deselect individual updates by name.

This page contains the following buttons:

Table 2. List of buttons and functions

Option	Function
Check Updates	Click this button to check for available updates.  This operation may take a few minutes to complete. Once the operation completes, the list of all available updates is displayed in the right pane and all updates are selected by default. Individual updates are listed under their respective device categories and the appropriate criticality icon is also displayed before the name of the update. The date/time when the last check for updates was performed (either manually by the user or by Dell Precision Optimizer automatic updates) is displayed under this button.
Apply Updates	Clicking this button takes you to a confirmation page to apply the updates.
History Log	Click this button to display the logs containing detailed information of previous Update History.
Settings	Click this button to schedule automatic updates and select options and filters that must be applied.

After viewing the history logs, you may click the Update List button to go back to the previous page listing all the updates.

The software can check the Dell server to retrieve the list of updates available for your specific system and/or download and install certain updates upon your request.

The updates can be configured so that they are done either manually or periodically. The updates are classified as Critical, Recommended or Optional.

If the software is configured to Check or Install Update periodically, then the above filters is used to determine which updates is displayed to the user or which will be downloaded and installed on the system.

Notifications

The application may give notifications to the user using pop-up dialog boxes to inform the user if some problem occurred during a check for updates or if a system reboot is required for installed update to work.

•  If you click “ Yes” the system will start the reboot process. Please make sure that you close all other applications and save your data before proceeding.
• If you click “ No” the installed update will not be complete.