Satellite A300 - no illumination with WXP

Hi,
Excuse me for my bad English.
My Toshiba (Sat A300-1EC) OS was changed from Vista to XP. Easy keys, hot keys and illumination stopped operating.
Thanks to much information from this forum, I downloaded four drivers from Toshiba Support (Common, Hotkey, Utilities, Control).
Everything becomes OK, except LED illumination. First (left) of easy keys turns on/off sound (as Fn+Esc), but not illumination.
What can be wrong?
Thanks for Your help.

Hi
Did you choose the right option in Toshiba Control buttons tool?
Usually you should find this in control panel -> Toshiba Controls
Using this tool you can configure the single buttons.
Select Illumination On/Off in the first button settings and save the changes.
Then check again the illumination button functionality!
Greets

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