Toshiba Satellite Pro M30 & Power Saver shutdown error

hello!
i am fighting with this problem for months now.. the latest version of power saver on my toshiba sat pro m30 running windows xp with service pack 1 installed gives a message box with an error message on shutdown and i am unable to eliminate this error. unfortunately, i cannot consider re-installing the system from scratch, because there are many other applications installed and i cannot lose settings for them. i've read the forums and realised i am not the first one having problems with toshiba power saver. i am even lucky to have it started successfully at the start-up! yet, it crashes at the shutdown. it's quite annoying. also, i have downloaded all latest updates from this site for my laptop, including even bios update.
i would love to have the opportunity to be able to download the bug-free version of toshiba power saver from this site, and i am sure many other people would appreciate the fixes too!
any feedback on that?
andrew.

hello Quad,
> If your Notebook is properly installed it should work
> well. All delivered software was tested. The only
> reason for your problem can be some additional
> software that you installed later.
my notebook was properly installed and power saver indeed had not been crashing from the very beginning. it started to crash at shutdown after a month of work with my laptop. how can it be that no other application is crashing elsewhere, and only the power saver application does? do you not find it slightly irrelevant to point me again to recovery CD? especially, when i mention that re-installing everything from scratch is not an option for me? moreover, i didn't install anything ultra-specific that loads at startup. in fact, i try to keep my system as clean as possible. no Antivirus, no SP2, no weird background processes.
> It is also possible that it can be caused by some
> Antivirus application. Maybe is some application
> running in background? There are lots of reasons who
> can be responsible for this issue.
there is logic in your words, but as i said, there are no specific applications installed to be running in the background, except ASIO drivers for the external sound interface, but they were working fine from the beginning with power saver. no antivirus installed either.
and please do not refer to your particular configuration as a standard. all configurations become different as time passes from the original installation. :>
regards,
andrew

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