[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

[adgod]

Yes I'm mistaken. It will be the series name like "Inspiron" on mine. On the bottom of mine there is one "Sl No." on the stamp which is a 7 digit number. I am not sure if that is the one required for Dell SupportAssist to work.

[xdude]

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

Usually Dell has it printed just left side of Touch pad. But it disappear after a while. Dell doesn't put anything on Monitor I don't know about other brands. Anyway I prefer not to touch hardware of unscrew a  laptop without a really big issue. Speccy is very tiny tool used even by professional hardware technicians. It has no ads or anything anything. I have been using it for more than 5 years so I know about it well. It's one of those software I always install when Setup a computer.

[sagher]

we have more other free choices. i personally like a very small and effective app Driver ID agent. with the short name of DevID agent. and totally free to search and install driver to your PC.