Is there a central place on Windows 7 to check if drivers are updated?  

Try this Speed up your PC, and fix PC problems fast with DriverScan
I have used it, it seems to work.

Or you can go on device manager,

I would agree with Yowan in #2 post above. Driver scanners cause more problems than they cure IMHO, of course. Don't touch your drivers unless you have a problem. The old adage "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is a million times better than "Keep fixing it till it's broke"

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Just a reminder about a driver.sys file very unstable "nxsIO64.sys" that might go in:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers

registry path:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\nxsIO32]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):5c,00,3f,00,3f,00,5c,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,\
64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,57,00,4f,00,57,00,36,00,34,\
00,5c,00,44,00,52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,6e,00,78,00,73,00,\
49,00,4f,00,36,00,34,00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="NextSensor Kernel I/O Driver"
"WOW64"=dword:00000001

This usualy comes in your system after such drivers update scan.

Just delete all this!!!!

Dear rfe777,
You have posed an excellent query!

1) yowan was right when he said not to depend unduly on 3rd party driver scanners!

2) What if, your motherboard manufacturer provides you with a facility to check whether you have some drivers which need updating? That has to be more accurate than any other tool!

3) INTEL has one such tool. It's really cool! Check out this link : Intel® Driver Update Utility
4) I will post the result of intel's search for updating drivers in my desktop as a snapshot below:

Regards,
Sreedhav
PS: The snap was before i updated the chipset driver family. The other one , the graphics driver is being dissected and opinions given in the Graphics card forum" your opinions please". Kindlychip in with your point of view there!

Dear rfe777,
What if some one like me,- a non-or semi-geek were unable to identify the MoBo version! Intel has another tool for just that purpose! http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...17730&lang=eng

Kindly see the snap below: If you feel you have benefitted, you can +rep. me by clicking on the scales (The middle one) on the right upper part of my post!

rfe777 said:

Prior to installing SP1 I was wondering if there is a central application on Windows 7 that checks if all the drivers on my PC are fully updated, just like Windows update.

Anyone knows?

TIA

Dear rfe777,
The nearest is the "Device Manager", if you mean a native application within Win.7!
Regards,
Sreedhav