Performing an inventory of your hardware so that it knows what driver/firmware updates available from Dell for your system apply to the actual configuration you have, and also performing some health/diagnostic checks that can be performed from within Windows. You can check for updates yourself by going to support.dell.com, and you can perform more extensive diagnostics than are possible from within SupportAssist by pressing F12 during initial startup and choosing to boot to the onboard diagnostics tool. For the former, I recommend only searching by your system model rather than your Service Tag so that you can see all available updates, since sometimes searching by Service Tag causes some updates that would apply to your system not to be shown. Of course searching by system model will practically guarantee you'll see some items that definitely do NOT apply to your system (e.g. systems where multiple WiFi and/or graphics options were available), but I personally would rather see everything and skip what I don't need than potentially miss something I do need. Or of course just keep using SupportAssist so that it checks your actual installed hardware and builds a list of available updates based on that.
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Performing an inventory of your hardware so that it knows what driver/firmware updates available from Dell for your system apply to the actual configuration you have, and also performing some health/diagnostic checks that can be performed from within Windows. You can check for updates yourself by going to support.dell.com, and you can perform more extensive diagnostics than are possible from within SupportAssist by pressing F12 during initial startup and choosing to boot to the onboard diagnostics tool. For the former, I recommend only searching by your system model rather than your Service Tag so that you can see all available updates, since sometimes searching by Service Tag causes some updates that would apply to your system not to be shown. Of course searching by system model will practically guarantee you'll see some items that definitely do NOT apply to your system (e.g. systems where multiple WiFi and/or graphics options were available), but I personally would rather see everything and skip what I don't need than potentially miss something I do need. Or of course just keep using SupportAssist so that it checks your actual installed hardware and builds a list of available updates based on that.