Satellite A500 - 14L upgraded to Windows 7 - HDD protection & FN button question

Hello

(Sorry if my English is a little bad, I'm french)

Upgrading my windows x 64 Windows seven x 64 Vista and I want to download the drivers that I had in Vista, because all my data is delete.

- so I download HDD protection, I can open this software but I can not active there: http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4632/ssslj.jpg
-taclitles of keys does not work and I don't know what is the driver...
-When I press Fn + Fx, normally I have something on top of the screen, but I have nothing now... What is the driver?

Thank you and sorry for my bad English.

You must install the Toshiba Value added Package. If the 64-bit version of Vista does not work, you can get a beta version of www.csd.toshiba.com

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