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Does anyone know of a handy program for updating all the drivers on a laptop?

Try the maker site ,I tend to use driverguide.com for hard to find drivers.

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Best to do it manually. It's a pain in the arse process since the manufacturers usually offer out of date drivers. Some tips though.

If it's an Intel / Centrino based laptop then http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ for drivers for the chipset (INF Update utility), network, wireless and possibly graphics if you have an Intel GMA graphics chip

If it's got an ATI graphics card, and you want to use it for 3D games, http://www.omegadrivers.net, if it's got an nVidia card then just go straight to nvidia.com

If it has Realtek audio or networking then http://www.realtek.com.tw

If it has a Synaptic touchpad http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm

If it has an ALPS touchpad, use the Synaptic drivers, they're a lot better

If you have unknown devices then right click on them, go to properties and details and you'll see a line like: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0290&SUBSYS_22101682&REV_A1\4&63F8C69&0&0018. Put the VEN and DEV numbers into google (in this case 10DE 0290). There are a number of sites that collect those and will tell you what the hardware is

For everything else you may as well just get them from the manufacturers website

Botach, Lum - cheers!
This should keep me busy for a while.