Firstly, definitely fix your sound setup as per JMesa’s descrition. [Also, JMesa, the units of power are Watts (W) not Volts (V), but your numbers are otherwise correct.]
The quite miserable Touchpad response can be fixed in the following manner. But please note that doing this will also lose the zoom and rotate capability built into the as delivered Touchpad driver. I do computer graphics and the tradoff of a far more usable Touchpad with no rotate and zoom was well worth the switch. Perform the following selections:
- Start
- Control Panel
- Hardware and Sound
- Device Manager (under Devices and Printers)
- Mice and Other Pointing Devices
OK, from here on I cannot provide the exact names because having already done this change the names are no longer available in the menues for viewing.
Select the Touchpad and then the Touchpad Driver and then Delete it. You will receive a warning but continue with the deletion. Then you will have to reboot one or more times as Windows 7 detects the lack of a Touchpad driver and simply installs its own driver. The Windows 7 Touchpad driver is more user friendly than what Toshiba provided, but it does lack the rotate and zoom that very few would use anyway.
I bought this laptop for my spouse and she likes it after I fixed the sound and Touchpad. It does have a really long operating time on the battery when you set it up for minimal power usage.