Sonic Update Manager

My Dell XPS m140 arrived today. After removing a bunch of the programs that come on it to start with, I ended up getting an error on start up saying that sonic update manager was looking for resources on a network drive, I uninstalled sonic update manager and restarted, then a new error was coming up, Sonic Activation Manager was looking for a file from a cd-rom that I didn't have. I then checked out the dell forums and found this thread which lead me to this link: http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q111006

Downloading and installing the update manager from this link took care of the problem.