Satellite A350-13D - Brightness slider suddenly gone

Hi,
I've got a toshiba satellite a350-13d, with windows 7, installed it long ago, worked perfectly apart from FN keys functioning. However that was not my problem, as I could change screen brightness with the slider provided by windows...
But... All of a sudden, my brightness slider is gone. I didn't install any new drivers, windows stopped showing me the opportunity to change the screen brightness (clicking on that battery status icon in the traybar it used to say "change screen brightness", and if i click on "more options" it's gone too). Does anyone have a fix for this?
I previously installed all drivers from the toshiba website, so that should not be the problem.
Thanks,
Koen

Hi
Strange possibly its registry issue or something like that
Can you change the display brightness here:
Control Panel -> All control panel items -> Display -> Adjust brightness (on the left)
Otherwise you could try to get the FN buttons working.
For that you need the Win 7 VAP (value added package) and Toshiba Flash Card utility for Win 7.
I found the Toshiba Flash Card utility for Win 7 on the Toshiba European driver page in Satellite L500 download areas

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