The Windows 10 download worked well on my 3 year old XPS13--except it killed the track pad driver.  The Dell website doesn't seem to have a recent driver upgrade, and of course "Kevin & Chip" in New Delhi were as useless as usual.  

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I'm interested in how it worked for other on the XPS 8500 as I've read mixed results.

Works fine, but it has an AC6100 Netgear USB wireless adapter. I've seen reports of the stock 1703 half-card wireless device NOT working though.

Got it on an XPS 8300 which has similar hardware, no issues so far.

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I'm not too bothered about the mini card 1703 - I don't use the bluetooth or the Wifi.

As long as the LAN interface works, that should be fine.

Can the miniCard be replaced for an Intel model ? would that work better ?

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My XPS 8500 from early 2012 works fine on windows 10 with A12 bios

Everything was fine after the upgrade except windows automatically installed the latest realtek drivers which break maxxaudio, I downloaded the realtek drivers from dell for 8.1 and it works fine on 10.

I feel kind of stupid though, forgot to change to UEFI before upgrading, have to reinstall windows 10 again now :(

I feel kind of stupid though, forgot to change to UEFI before upgrading

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Can you explain this to me.. is it something I need to do / be aware of before I upgrade ?

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It's a setting in the BIOS, you shouldn't really worry but UEFI has better security and boot/resume times.

My XPS 8500 is from early 2012 and came with windows 7, If you have a newer os that came with your pc then it should already be configured for UEFI.

Upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows then create Installation Media for Clean Reinstallation.

You can then enable UEFI and SecureBoot and Clean Reinstall Windows 10. See here for details:

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/a-clean-install-of-windows-10/

Note if you have already upgraded, start on step 4.

Thanks, will windows automatically activate after installing? Tried viewing my windows 10 product key but it returns the generic one.