Thunderbolt VGA adapter drivers on Windows 7

I am now using MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011 and I installed windows 7 on it. Everything works fine except the thunderbolt for the secondary display. So, can someone help me give links to the driver? Thanks

I also have a thunderbolt VGA adaptor for my 13" macbookPRO. Works well connecting to a 19" monitor but not when connected to my Sony TV. My VGA cable works just fine between my PPC mac mini and the Sony TV. Am I missing something?
Is there some something I have overlooked? I have had a number of Macs over the past many years and almost always find that I am the problem not the equipment.

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Hello guys, after searching a lot in the forum for an answer to this, I could not find a solution so this is the reason for this post.
I have a Macbook Pro (early 2011 I think) running MacOSX Lion and I have installed Windows 7 64-bit through bootcamp (version 4.0).
Everything works fine except that I cannot connect my external display through my thunderbolt-vga adapter.
The external monitor shows only the boot screen of windows (the one with the windows logo) and then, when I get into the login page it goes blank.
After reading the forum, I have done several things in order to fix this problem such as:
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Updated to the latest ATI drivers through bootcamp.
Removed the graphics driver and re-install it again.
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but still no luck.
Does anyone have any idea on what else I could do in order to fix this? By the way, I find it very frustrating that Apple does not have a stable solution to the problem with devices that are connected to the thunderbolt port.
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My question is, can a 3rd party made, Mini Display Port to VGA adapter works on MBP & iMac that have mini display port and not on those that have thunderbolt port??
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