Remember, if you're ever in need of a computer, then automatically purchase a Dell without even thinking about it.ĭone. Fortunately, I love Dell, and I'm delighted to hit my head against a brick wall for them if that's what's necessary. Looks like a bunch of driver files, but I don't see any actual 'installation' file. Now I just have to figure out how to turn the barrage of extracted files into proper driver installations. Better to run them from the C: than the hairy thumb drive, I assume.Ĭlicked on them, and they extract and run fine. I don't know why downloading to the C: drive didn't work. I stuck a thumb drive into the laptop, clicked the download links again, told it to download to the thumbdrive, and got full downloads, 26 MB and 81 MB. The downloaded 'files' on the hard drive were only 4 MB and 10 MB, corrupt as predicted.

The Dell webpage said the files are 25 MB and 79 MB. Somehow, he (or she) suggested downloading to a USB thumb drive to solve the problem.įor some reason, that worked with this computer. Someone with ESP figured the message indicated that the downloaded. I found someone on an earlier TechSupportForum thread had the same problem with a Dell Inspiron laptop. 'This self-extracting zip file is part of a multidisk zip file.

exe files, I get an error (or something) message: exe driver-installation files to the desktop, which are self extracting zip files that need to be unzipped before they can be run. Dell Latitude E6500 laptop - (that's the model, not the CPU), Windows 7.ĭoing a mundane driver update.

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