[deanhills]

Arnt almost all Dell laptops have the model number written in one of the corners of the monitor? I may not be sure, mostly about the latest ones. But fact: you can turn the laptop over and unscrew the baseplate and near the fan there will be a stamp with all the details you need. So I'll rather do that than installing a probable adware/botnet to just find out the model of my laptop

I can't imagine the model number written in a laptop monitor corner.  More likely the bottom of the laptop.  However the number that one needs for the Dell SupportAssist to work unless I'm mistaken can't be found externally - one has to extract it from the laptop.  It is a unique 7-digit Serial Number.  You get the number by typing the command line below into the cmd.exe of the computer/laptop:

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wmic bios get serialnumber