Manually Reinstalling Drivers For Windows Xp - Dell Inspiron 8500 Owner's Manual

From the Language drop-down menu in the toolbar, select your
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preferred language for the driver or utility (if available). A welcome
screen appears.
Click Next.
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The CD automatically scans your hardware to detect drivers and
utilities used by your computer.
After the CD completes the hardware scan, you can also detect other
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drivers and utilities. Under Search Criteria, select the appropriate
categories from the System Model, Operating System, and Topic
drop-down menus.
A link or links appear(s) for the specific drivers and utilities used by
your computer.
Click the link of a specific driver or utility to display information about
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the driver or utility that you want to install.
Click the Install button (if present) to begin installing the driver or
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utility. At the welcome screen, follow the screen prompts to complete
the installation.
If no Install button is present, automatic installation is not an option.
For installation instructions, either see the appropriate instructions in
the following subsections, or click Extract, follow the extracting
instructions, and read the readme file.
If instructed to navigate to the driver files, click the CD directory on
the driver information window to display the files associated with that
driver.

Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP

After extracting the driver files to your hard drive as described in the
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previous section, click the Start button, point to Settings, and click
Control Panel.
Click the Start button and right-click My Computer.
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Click Properties.
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Click the Hardware tab and click Device Manager.
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Double-click the type of device for which you are installing the driver
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(for example, Modems or Infrared devices).
NOTE: If you are
reinstalling an infrared
sensor driver, you must
first enable the infrared
sensor in the system setup
program (see page 148)
before continuing with the
driver installation.
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