Satellite A500-14I - ATI CCC entry is missing

Hi,
I got a Toshiba Satellite A500-14l with a radeon mobility HD4650.
I replace Vista by Windows 7 in september 2009 (thank's to msdnaa), installed the latest driver I found. Few month pass, I decided to update my graphic driver. As you can see, there is no updated driver for Windows 764bit for my laptop model psam3e.
http://fr.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=FR give me ati driver 8.563.1.5 or 8.634.1
I wanted to try catalyst 10.7 (8.753) to use ati acceleration with vlc 1.1.1, so I cheat, I pretend my laptop was a L670-psk3ee to get a 8.712.2.1 version of catalyst.
That works great, and this is the only way i found to get an "almost" up-to-date driver. Then I installed the Hydravision from game.amd.com website (because it's not included in toshiba driver).
Now, the CCC entry in the right click is missing, and the hydravision tab is missing in CCC too. I never see this problem before, so if anyone have a idea...
Thank's in advance.
PS:
* Using Windows 7 64bit, up-to-date, except ati driver due to toshiba policy.
* ccc mean Catalyst control center. the shortcut in "all programs" runs fine.
* Hydravision is a usefull tools to manage multi desk and display. As there is no entry in the CCC i can't configure it, but the multi-desk exe works fine too.
Everything runs fine on my computer (not the laptop), so I think the problem came from Toshiba driver (as AMD can't provide the generic one due to specific functionnality added by toshiba, like temperature monitoring & cie). So I'm interesting in the possibility to add CCC in the right-click menu, and add the Hydravision tab to CCC.
ps 2: I already desinstall - clean the registry - reinstall Ati driver & hydravision, it doesn't work.

Because it's solve bug and add feature ? Try to tell ati/nvidia & microsoft to stop updating theirs programs because it's useless, i'm sure they 'll have a good laught.
By the way :
10.7a : add AA in starcraft2.
10.7 : add gpu accelerationfor VLC
10.6: GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Video De-blocking support, Mosquito noise reduction, Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
10.5 : Support for 120 Hz displays on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series
10.4 : H.264 Level 5.1 support,
10.3: ATI Catalyst support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses (one day maybe, it'll be checked)
Without forgetting all improvement...
So yes, it's not always necessary, but if you can update it times to times (ie when you reinstall windows), it's not a so bad idea...
The "official" driver for my laptop is a catalyst 9.11 like.
But the main matter is still the missing entries. I'll try to bypass toshiba driver, too bad for the warranty : i prefer to use a little more the GPU, and little les the CPU.

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