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[whatmeworry]

Hello:

Can someone answer these questions for me since I cannot find a phone number for AMD and time-consuming email conversations with AMD have yet to answer them?

I have a 5-year-old Dell PC running Win 11 and three days ago I noticed, in the system tray at the bottom right corner of my monitor, a program running call "AMD Software Adrenalin Edition".  I have never noticed this before.   Since my virus protection indicated no malware, I reluctantly opened it.  It opens to a Tracking page with other option such as Home, Gaming, Performance.  When I attempted to uninstall this program I do not see it on the installed programs list to select Uninstall.

My questions:

1) How did AMD Software Adrenalin Edition get on my PC? (I did not intentionally request it)

2) What is this software; what does it do?  Do I need it?

3) Can I uninstall it without negatively impacting my PC?  How do I uninstall it?

Thank you very much for answering my questions.

[FunkZ]

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/software#

It's part of the AMD driver package for graphics, processor and chipset management and tuning control.

If you haven't changed hardware then it was likely installed with a recent software update.

If you don't want the Adrenalin software it seems there may be a way to manually extract just the driver you need from the package.

https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/how-do-i-install-my-drivers-without-installing-the-ext...

[johnnyenglish]

Hi, 

1) How did AMD Software Adrenalin Edition get on my PC? (I did not intentionally request it)

R: Problably through DELL Software like DELL COMMAND or such.

2) What is this software; what does it do?  Do I need it?

R: If your Dell system has a AMD GPU/iGPU then you should use Adrenalin.

3) Can I uninstall it without negatively impacting my PC?  How do I uninstall it?

You can uninstall it of course but then you'll have to use the native driver with much less options I guess. On the DELL computers we configure around here, it will revert to native and lots of software won't work properly.
Always get the drivers from DELL SUPPORT with the Service Tag.

[whatmeworry · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much.  That helps me understand it more.  I'm thinking it was installed the last time I ran Dell Support Assist.