When you connect your Dell laptop to the Dell docking station like Dell Universal Dock D6000, you can gain access to all your peripherals including mouse, keyboard, stereo speakers, external hard drive, and large-screen displays without having to plug each one onto your laptop.
You can easily plug each peripheral into Dell DisplayLink Docking station and then plug your docking station using single cable that supports both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 3 (USB Type-C). Dell docking station works with DisplayLink technology that enables docking feature over USB.
Depending on Dell docking station or other USB dock belongs to Dell brand, Dell Docking driver must be installed in your computer. For example, if you have Dell D3100 dock or any other USB dock connected to Windows 10 computer, then you should make sure the Dell DisplayLink driver is properly installed in your computer. Note that Dell offers DisplayLink driver for most of its docking station.
Dell DisplayLink driver software acts like a normal display on your computer. It detects the monitors connected through Dell DisplayLink dock and presents them to Operating System like Windows OS. This driver is essential software to communicate your external monitor hardware or other peripherals connected to computer through Dell DisplayLink dock.
Without Dell DisplayLink driver, you can’t use Dell DisplayLink dock anymore in your computer means you might face several issues related to DisplayLink dock like Windows can’t recognize Dell DisplayLink, Dell DisplayLink not working, Dell DisplayLink not charging laptop, Dell DisplayLink not connecting to monitor or similar issues.
So, we recommended you to update or reinstall driver for your docking station to fix this issue. Note that problematic driver like missing, outdated or corrupted driver is one of core reasons behind this type of problem. So, driver update is necessary.
How to update or reinstall Dell DisplayLink driver software on Windows 10?
Step 1: Click on ‘Start button > Control panel > Programs and Features’
Step 2: Look for following DisplayLink software in the list
j5 USB DISPLAY ADAPTER
j5 USB FUNCTIONAL DOCKING STATION
INSTALLER FOR USB GRAPHICS DEVICE
MCT USB GRAPHICS SOFTWARE
FRESCO LOGIC USB VGA DRIVER
DISPLAYLINK CORE SOFTWARE
Step 3: Uninstall any of these software to get display link to work
Step 4: After that, restart your computer and visit ‘DisplayLink Downloads’ page and download and run the DisplayLink Install Cleaner.
Step 5: Open ‘Device Manager’, look for Dell DisplayLink driver, right-click on it and select ‘Update Driver’
Step 6: Follow on-screen instructions to finish update and after that reboot your computer.
Note: The software mentioned in ‘step 2’ above should be removed first and then you can try to update Dell DisplayLink driver.
How to download and reinstall Dell DisplayLink driver using ‘Command Prompt’?
Step 1: Press ‘Windows + X’ keys together from keyboard and select ‘Command Prompt as Admin’
Step 2: Type the follow command one-by-one and hit ‘Enter’ key after each to execute
sc delete GManager
sc delete MctUsbAudio
sc delete mctkmd
sc delete mctkmdldr
sc delete MCTDesktopSvr
Step 3: After that, reboot your computer
Step 4: You can try to update Dell DisplayLink driver using ‘step 4 and step 5’ of above method.
Conclusion
I am sure this post helped you to know about Dell DisplayLink, and how to download, reinstall and update its driver file. You can read & follow our instructions to do so. That’s all. For any suggestions or queries, please write on comment box below.
