Dell Precision Optimizer User's Guide

The Optimization page lists all the available profiles. Click to view the names and descriptions of policies, followed by more guidance, if available, for the selected profile.

New application profiles are made available using Dell Precision Optimizer updates available in the System Maintenance module or CHECK FOR PROFILE UPDATES.

The application checks for the new profiles that are available when you click CHECK FOR PROFILE UPDATES. New profiles are downloaded, obsolete profiles may be deleted, and some profiles may be updated. This feature functions when the machine is connected to the Internet.

NOTE: The software may come with special profiles that can be activated when no other profile is active. When the profile is activated, it is automatically deactivated by the software once they have started. The Dell Factory Settings profile is a hidden profile, activated when you click . It can be used to restore certain system parameters that are changed by Dell Precision Optimizer back to their factory defaults. If you select this option, then all active profiles are disabled. When you apply default settings, you must reactivate the profiles that are disabled.

If you are running Dell Precision Optimizer Premium software, click SWITCH TO ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION which lists all the applications that are either custom optimized on your system, or the applications for which you imported optimization settings. User can also click SWITCH TO PRE-LEARNED PROFILES which lists all the integrated profiles.

Use SWITCH TO ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION to optimize any application, even the ones for which Dell Precision Optimizer has a built-in legacy profile.

The process to optimize a new application is by selecting the target process using the button. Either select an application from the list of most commonly used applications that are determined by Dell Precision Optimizer, or select BROWSE FOR MORE to select the executable application.

After you select the application, it is marked as In Progress until Dell Precision Optimizer finishes learning the behavior of the application using machine learning and applies learned optimization settings. During this stage, you can pause the application learning and later resume application learning. You must actively use the application for Dell Precision Optimizer software to learn the application's behavior and then determine the most optimal settings for that application. When your application is learning and the performance score is not displayed, ensure that you do not turn off the learning application, as Dell Precision Optimizer collects utilization data while optimizing the learning application.

You can also choose to cancel the learning at any stage, which will discard any learned information for that application. It typically takes between 1 and 5 hours to learn an application. However, if there are long periods in between where the application is not running or is inactive, this period may be much longer.

After the application is learned, Dell Precision Optimizer marks that application as Optimized. Sometimes, the optimized application may prompt you to Reboot the system or Restart the application for the optimizations to take effect. Use the Disable/Enable option for each optimized application if you want to temporarily turn off/on the optimizations applied by Dell Precision Optimizer for that application. You may want to do this if you have used Dell Precision Optimizer to optimize more than one application and they have conflicting optimization settings. In such a case, Dell Precision Optimizer displays a warning message before you enable the optimization for the conflicting application.

After optimization, the overall performance score of the application and a bar graph with CPU and Storage improvement scores are displayed.

You can import or export its configurations. Dell Precision Optimizer shows the stock icon for any imported profile instead of the actual application icon.