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October 28th, 2009 23:00
Does anyone know if the Dell Solution Center (application program) works on Win 7?
This is not a major deal.....although I did like the convenience of having the program on my system. There is no Win 7 release. However, I wonder if the latest version of this program *released in the Spring of 2009) and built for X64 Vista would work on X64 Win 7? Thanks for any reples.
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Alexandra_P
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October 29th, 2009 11:00
You mean the Dell Support Center with the blue wrench icon? Can only speculate, but here's my opinion FWIW (I have a 410 running XP, but no plans to upgrade yet):
A lot of the features are OS specific (driver updates, alerts, the "PC Checkup", etc). If you tried the Vista version on Win7 it might choke on it - or it might not. But I'm not sure I would trust it to be accurate.
As for a Win7 version - Dell probably will release one at some point to be compatible with new Win7 models, but no idea if it would be compatible with older ones. As a rule once a model is out of production Dell doesn't have an incentive to keep drivers and apps up-to-date, and generally won't add support for a new OS, either.
To be honest, I'm not a fan of the program anyway. Doesn't do anything for me I can't do with much smaller free utilities and a couple bookmarks - and any program that defaults to a full-time running background process really gets on my nerves. But to each his own.
scott784
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October 29th, 2009 22:00
Yes, the Dell Support Center with the blue wrench icon. However, you make a point in saying that Win 7 might choke on it. It's certainly not a program that I have to have and certainly wouldn't rely on it for updates to my system. I just kind of liked the convenience of a single shortcut that instantly showed me everything about my system without having to create bookmarks, etc. Again, not a big deal though.
You are also right in saying that dell has no incentive to release any updates for drivers and apps once a model goes out of production. I noticed that long ago. For my system, they continue to post out of date drivers for my sound card, etc, that I certainly would not rely on. This was the case even under Vista before I upgraded to Win 7 on my own. The last BIOS update for my system was December 2007 (something more important); however, even in areas like that......I am sure Dell has little interest in keeping the support page updated.
It's just the way it goes. Anyhow, thanks for the reply.