first off, you need to discover what kind of hardware you have. Drivers are small software files that allow your OS to communicate with your hardware. Often times drivers give your hardware improvements, depending on the driver code.
A good example would be say Nvidia graphics card drivers. The original drivers that came with the Nvidia video cards are terrible compared to the latest drivers released on the http://www.nvidia.com website.
The best way, if you don't already know what kind of hardware you have is to go to your PC systems homepage and look it up.
if you have a sony PC go to the sony website, same for Dell, HP, Toshiba, Compaq, Emachines, Gateway, Fujitsu, and so on..
If you built your own machine or it is a custom job from a custom company, then I'd recommend a tool like the Belarc Advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
That will give you an extensive list of information on your hardware. Once you find what brand and model say your video card, motherboard, sound card, hard drive, disk drives, etc.. you can then go to the manufacturers site for the most recent driver and firmware revisions.
Another Alternative to Belarc is the AIDA32 Program:
http://www.techzonez.com/comments.php?catid=2&id=5459
IT does the same thing as Belarc but it has many other useful features as well.
If you need help finding drivers, just post up your hardware and we can help you search for the updates.
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