Satellite A500 - Slower with Videos on Windows 7

Hi, I am desperately in need of advice, I am 78 years old and going up the wall.
My Satellite A500/03P was purchased with Vista preinstalled and worked well. My particular interest is the running and creation of video training clips for other Senior Citizens, as purchased video ran well, stutter free. I took up the offer of upgrading to Windows 7 and purchased the upgrade, things have gone rapidly downhill since. The Windows 7 install went crazy during install, requiring me to take the computer to a service shop. It was returned with Windows 7 installed, but was considerably slower with videos run from the hard drive stuttering, even worse from my ADSL2 Internet connection running at around 1.25M bits per sec.
After a while I took it back to the service man and $200 later was supplied with a dual boot hard drive, Windows 7 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. The system is realy virtually unuseable for video. I have downloaded and installed all of the 32 and 64 bit drivers available from Toshiba but have had to abandon the 64 bit completely as unuseable. I have tried to install another copy of Vista Ultimate, purchased for my old desktop, but could not get the Internet to work, either direct or via WIFI on the laptop.
I have tried to run the Toshiba on the 32bit Windows 7, but the Laptop is far too slow, even my email creeps in to the email readere. Any advice would be most appreciated as my pension wont support the local service peoples charges. Should I purchase the original Toshiba disks and return to "ex Factory Vistor State" or what.
Regards
LeslieB

I have often seen/heard of people having issues with upgrading to Win 7 from Vista. If some one were to ask me what to do when wanting to ugprade, I would probably advise a clean install.
If you do not want to try that route yet, hm...
*Video/Audio*
In advanced power settings, do you have any listing for multimedia?
For the HDMI issues, I am not sure what the problem is, but if there is a listing for multimedia settings in advanced power settings, for which you can set it to maxium performance, hopefully that may solve the case. If it is not there, I will try and tell you what to do.
IF the sound does not stutter in HDMI, then the audio must be fine...
Try this link: [http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/274828-33-hdmi-output-device-windows-radeon-4650]
I am not sure how to help here yet!
*Connecting to Internet WiFi/direct*
Does it still work in Win 7? Might be a OS driver update kind of thing.

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