Satellite L40 - 1.90 bios update does nothing on Vista exept reboot

Hi,
We have a L40 laptop and very happy with it. It has bios 1.60 and I want to update it to 1.90. Vista-32 home basic was by default installed. It now has SP1.
When I unzip the package and run the bat file (which start winflash with the binary), the "dos" window opens and stays there for a while. Nothing happens and afterwards the window closes and the system is rebooted.
When I just run winflash, nothing happens. There is no dialog or any other messages.
How does one update the bios on the L40-14Y (PSL48E)?
Thx!
DickS

Could be, the account is in admin rights so should work.
But the winflash just closes on start. I tried running it in XP-SP2 compatability mode, same behaviour.
Maybe there is an issue with German Vista-32-SP1? No idea, but strange as the bios file is from 28.3 when there was RC of SP1 so I'd think it would be tested by Toshiba.
Should I trace with debugview and send it to Toshiba somewhere?
DickS

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