Hi All,
I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 3580 i5 and I've replaced the HDD with a SSD and added another 8GB of memory. My original plan was to just clone the HDD to the SSD, but I don't want all the Dell software that came with the laptop.
The laptop came with Windows 10 Home pre-installed, so if I do a clean install will it automatically activate Windows 10 again with the Dell OEM key? If I understand it correctly, the key is stored on the ACPI table in the UEFI firmware, so it should activate automatically.
Also, will Windows 10 automatically detect and download the drivers I need or do you recommend that I download it from Dell support to a USB drive?
Thank you in advance for any feedback!!
I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 3580 i5 and I've replaced the HDD with a SSD and added another 8GB of memory. My original plan was to just clone the HDD to the SSD, but I don't want all the Dell software that came with the laptop.
The laptop came with Windows 10 Home pre-installed, so if I do a clean install will it automatically activate Windows 10 again with the Dell OEM key? If I understand it correctly, the key is stored on the ACPI table in the UEFI firmware, so it should activate automatically.
Also, will Windows 10 automatically detect and download the drivers I need or do you recommend that I download it from Dell support to a USB drive?
Thank you in advance for any feedback!!