Users Guide

2. On the Settings screen, click Advanced Driver Restore.
3. Click Enable to view the Advanced Driver Restore for Windows Reinstallation option on the Welcome screen.
By default, the feature is:
● When Dell Command | Update is installed on your system, the Advanced Driver Restore Reinstallation feature is
enabled.
● If Dell Command | Update is factory installed, the Advanced Driver Restore Reinstallation feature is disabled.
● After the drivers are installed on the system, the feature is disabled.
4. Select one of the following options:
● Download driver library from the dell.com/support site (Recommended).
● Use the specified driver library: To download the driver library from a local or network location. Click Browse to
specify the location.
5. Click OK to save changes, or click CANCEL to revert to the last saved settings and return to the Welcome screen.
BIOS
System Password
1. On the title bar, click Settings.
2. On the Settings screen, click BIOS.
3. Enter a value in the Password field in the System Password window. To view the password press and hold the SHOW
PASSWORD button. You have an option to click CLEAR button to clear the BIOS password.
NOTE: The value in the Password field persists even when the Settings tab is closed and reopened.
NOTE: If the System Password is configured in the BIOS, the same password is required to perform the BIOS
updates.
4. Click Restore Defaults and check that the Password field is empty.
Suspend BitLocker
Dell Command | Update supports the ability to install BIOS updates even if BitLocker Encryption is enabled on the system's boot
drive. This feature suspends BitLocker while the BIOS is updated and resumes BitLocker encryption once the BIOS has been
upgraded.
Dell Command | Update provides a check box in the BIOS settings screen to Automatically suspend BitLocker and displays
the following warning message: Warning: Automatically suspending BitLocker drive encryption must be
executed in a secure environment to safeguard the drive security.
If BitLocker is enabled, the following options get applied:
● When a BIOS update is available and selected, and the Automatically suspend BitLocker option is checked, then the
Automatically restart the system (when required) option is checked. By default this option is disabled. When the BIOS
update is installed, BitLocker is suspended temporarily to apply the BIOS updates. After the BIOS and other updates are
installed, the system automatically reboots to complete the BIOS update, and BitLocker is reenabled.
● If a BIOS update is present within the list of the Selected Updates screen, a BitLocker icon is displayed to the left of the
update.
● You can uncheck the Automatically suspend BitLocker option, the BIOS update is unchecked and disabled.
NOTE:
Hovering over the icon provides the message This update is blocked because BitLocker is
enabled on this system. If you want to install this update, please check
Automatically suspend BitLocker in the BIOS settings pane.
● The Dell Command | Update command-line interface provides an equivalent command line option -
autoSuspendBitLocker=<enable|disable> to automatically suspend the BitLocker if a BIoperating system update
must be installed. Disabling this option blocks installation of BIOS updates, if BitLocker is enabled on the OS Boot drive. See
the Dell Command | Update command line interface options section for more information.
Configure Dell Command | Update
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