The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    r500 windows 7 transflective button

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by holim, Oct 20, 2009.

  1. holim

    holim Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hey guys, i just installed windows7 rtm on my r500 and i downloaded the windows 7 drivers from the toshiba support site, but my transflective button still doesnt work (the button on the top right). I press it and it just brings up options to switch to dual display, duplicate display etc.

    Has anyone got it working under windows 7?

    Cheers
     
    holim, Oct 20, 2009
    #1
  2. holim

    holim Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    nevermind got it working,

    You just have to edit the presentation button in the button configuration tool.
    Register it to C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TBS\Backlight.exe

    works fine now :)
     
    holim, Oct 20, 2009
    #2
  3. gbolmsjo

    gbolmsjo Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    got the same problem. maybe I missed something but where do you find the button configuration tool, any driver?
    /Gunnar
     
    gbolmsjo, Nov 20, 2009
    #3
  4. gbolmsjo

    gbolmsjo Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    nevermind, got it working after struggling after checking different programs in the TBS folder and the not so intuitive gui. :)
    /GB
     
    gbolmsjo, Nov 21, 2009
    #4
  5. weinberk

    weinberk Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hello you two-
    Sorry for reopening an old thread, but I'm having the same issues.

    I've got an R500, with a clean install of Windows 7, 32 bit (not an upgrade).

    I've installed the TVAP drivers, currently with 1.2.34 installed.

    My transflective button just launches Internet Explorer. I remember the button configuration utility with Vista, but I do not see that installed with Windows 7. I've tried every .exe file in c:\program files\toshiba, but none launch the utility.

    Furthermore, and this is more important to me, I don't have c:\program files\toshiba\tbs\backlight.exe on the system. In fact, there's not even a tbs folder.

    I really don't care much about the transflective button itself, it's the feature that I'd like to enable/disable. If I have to create a shortcut to an .exe, that's fine, but I don't know how to get the exe and any associated dll / registry settings installed. Is that the TVAP utility, or something else?

    THANKS for the insight!
     
    weinberk, May 6, 2010
    #5