Remember back in the day when cnet.com had a utility that would check what programs and drivers you had and then tell you what updates are available to download? Yeah. Is there anything like that anymore? Freeware, of course.
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Remember back in the day when cnet.com had a utility that would check what programs and drivers you had and then tell you what updates are available to download? Yeah. Is there anything like that anymore? Freeware, of course.
Not So Fast 
This might be something along the lines of what you are looking for.
This just does driver; not applications, but it could be a start.
Better than a kick in the head.