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JohnCoool:
I updated it this year after the Windows installation because it does not have that feature. But the driver is old from 2010 and also does not have the feature.

The model # is: Satellite Pro C660-10J   PSCOPE

Do you know any 3rd party utilities that I can try out.

The drivers from Toshiba website is attached and the driver details as well.

Boggin:
I bought this C660-28R around Nov. 2011 and it has a 6 Series Chipset.

My graphics driver is dated 19/05/2016 so there was a newer one for me as that was around the time I updated to Win 10.

I have Googled to see if there's an alternative way to alter the Saturation setting but from what I've found, if it doesn't have that option in the Control Panel then it's a non-starter.

Have you considered updating to Win 10 and that way you should get a newer graphics driver as I did, although I don't know if that would give you an enhanced Control Panel.

A little while ago a member mentioned that you could still update free using the May 2020 update option although I don't know if that still works.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

I'd create a system image onto external media and a System Repair disk before trying it though.

JohnCoool:
Sounds like a good idea even if does not solve the issue because Windows 7 is good but very old and does not have support anymore. I did check a while ago if it can still be done but it is clearly mentioned on the Microsoft website that it cannot be done.

So I did a search around the internet and many people are doing it successfully which is strange.

One of the laptops for the other members of the family did it while I was away on their laptop but the HDD crashed last year(I replaced the crashed drive from another one that was on another laptop that was damaged but the HDD was still ok). I managed to copy the restore partition and I restored it back to Windows 7. So I will try to upgrade it again to Windows 7 since it does not have anything important on it and if they approve the upgrade.

If all goes well then I will consider it for mine and will update if it solves the issue.

I increased the RAM on it to 6GB and replaced the HDD since it crashed with a faster one - SSHD. But the CPU cannot keep up with multi-tasking. It cannot even run Opera GX Browser. The CPU is Core Duo 2.2 GHz. Of course this is not my main PC. It is just the backup one.

I bought the laptop when I was working at Toshiba in Cyprus. They just cut 50 Euros from my salary each month. It cost 280 Euros without Windows. Since it did not have windows and we had recovery discs of all the other models that come with Windows. I used a similar model recovery on it as per the recommendation of the supervisor. After I made sure everything was working well, I created recovery discs from Windows.

There is an older laptop running Windows Vista. I think it has 1GB of RAM. That one needs an upgrade as most programs don't work on it like updating Chrome. It does not do that anymore because the Windows does not have support on it. Same thing Will happen to Windows 7 soon.

How is the performance of your laptop after the upgrade? Does it need a lot of resources? Is it stable?

Boggin:
I have two Win 7 laptops that I've upgraded to Win 10 - I've kept an older Toshiba on Win 7.

This one is a Toshiba C660-28R which has an Intel Celeron dual core B800 1.5GHz CPU which works well with Win 10.

The other one is a Toshiba C660-1GD which has an AMD dual core 1.3GHz CPU which seems a little bit slower at times, but from your specs, I don't think you will have any problems if you can get the free upgrade.

All three machines have 8GB RAM installed.

However, Toshiba told me that neither of the two C660s were compatible for Win 10 - not sure if they were hoping I'd buy a new machine :)

JohnCoool:
I got the approval to upgrade the family laptop. If all goes well then I will try it on mine.

What is the best way to choose the version of Windows 10. There are many and I don't think that just any one of them can be activated for free.

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