Support.exe

Program Name :

Support.exe

Support.exe Manufacturer :

Dell


Support.exe Status :

Not OK Support.exe

Support.exe Description :

Background task for the Dell Support application installed on certain models of Dell PCs since October 2002. At the time of writing, 4-Apr-2004, Dell's definition of Dell Support is as follows : "The Dell Support 2.0 application is designed to provide you with answers to questions about your specific systems as well as guide you through troubleshooting hardware or software problems..... To ensure Dell Support always provides you with the best in technical support and how-to material, the Dell Support application will send Dell Support Usage Information from your PC to Dell. This information will let us know what technical support materials are effective in helping you and which are not. No other information outside of Dell Support usage is sent. Dell treats this information as strictly confidential and will not share it with anyone.".

Support.exe Recommendation :

We are against any sort of usage statistics collection "by stealth" which is one of the things this task does (constantly generating firewall alerts about SUPPORT.EXE trying to access the Internet). As Microsoft, Novell, and many others have shown, it is possible to collect usage information statistics by simply having a question in each support document asking the end-user to click "Yes/No" to the question "Was this document useful ?". Additionally, on some systems this task is responsible for startup error messages. Our recommendation, therefore, is to disable this task on the Startups tab irrespective of the fact that you can modify usage information settings in "Quick Links \ User Settings" in Dell Support. If you need to have Dell Support running while talking to a Dell technician, simply start it through "Start \ Programs \ Dell Applications \ Support \ Support".

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