How can I identify hardware components in a laptop?

How can I identify hardware components in a laptop? I just reinstalled my Windows and now I don't have all the hardware components recognized. I have an laptop and website seems to have all the necessary drivers for my model. The problem is that I don't know exactly which components I have. For example, in my laptop video card case the site has available drivers for ATI and Intel chips.
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"I prefer System Information for Windows over Belarc, much nicer interface.
Also has realtime information from things like your temperature sensors (if you have any).

Most of this is just through APIs from Windows, but it does a very good job of it.

Portable, non-installed application. Free for personal use, not for multiple installs in business environments (same as Belarc, although I know lots of people who ignore these kind of ""please don't use this in your company"" licences)"