SNIPPET: Toshiba Software and what it all is 
Monday, January 23, 2012, 17:43 - General Thoughts
Rainy days are good for cleaning up your computer software. Removing programs you no longer use or never wanted to start with not only frees up hard drive space but also can improve system speed.

Recently I went through my Toshiba L650 and removed a whole stack of software I don't use anymore. I found a whole list of Toshiba software that I would normally leave on the system but this time I decided to compile a list of the software, what it does and whether I decided to keep it installed or not.

The formatting of the table is difficult to get on this size webpage, so here is a link to the original file.

You can download the original document from my Google Docs: Toshiba Software - What it all is

Below is a list of the text contained in the file (for web searching reasons)

Program Name
Description
Did I keep it?
Toshiba Assist
Contains a collection of shortcuts to various Toshiba Utilities.
No
Toshiba Bulletin Board
Contains a collection of shortcuts to various Toshiba Utilities and some functionality like accessing help topics and memo notes etc.
No
Toshiba Config Free
Software that aims to simplify connecting and troubleshooting wireless network connections.
No
Toshiba Disc Creator
Disc burning software.
No
Toshiba eco Utility
Monitors and can control system settings to improve battery life of the laptop. Also tracks system power consumption in real time and displays power usage history.
Yes
Toshiba Face Recognition
User login authentication using face recognition software.
No
Toshiba Hardware Setup
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Yes
Toshiba HDD/SSD Alert
Monitors drive SMART Predict Failure function and alerts user to backup data in the event of a failure being predicted.
Yes
Toshiba Media Controller
Control your music, pictures and videos by streaming content to any compatible device that supports the Digital Media Renderer (DMR) functions in your home.
No
Toshiba Media Controller Plugin
A plugin associated with Media Controller.
No
Toshiba PC Health Monitor
Monitors system components and shows information such as power consumption, battery health and charge level, CPU temp and fan speed.
Yes
Toshiba Recovery Media Creator
Utility for creating system restore files that can be saved to different media formats like CD, DVD, USB drive etc. These files would be useful if HDD failure occurred and the system restore files were not retrievable from the HDD.
No
Toshiba Reel Time
Utility that displays files accessed by date in descending order in a “thumbnail reel view”. Has some sort/filtering options, and some shortcuts to programs.
No
Toshiba Service Station
Automatically search for TOSHIBA software updates or other alerts from TOSHIBA that are specific to your computer system and its programs.
No
Toshiba Software Modem
(by LSI Corporation) a software modem does the job of a hardware modem but is done in the software.
No
Toshiba Speech System *
Consists of a voice-composition application (text-to-speech) that analyzes documents and reads them aloud using an easily heard and understandable, and a speech-recognition application that recognizes the words you speak into a microphone. This allows you to control and operate various Windows programs by voice command rather than using the keyboard or a mouse.
No
Toshiba Supervisor Password
Utility to set/manage the Toshiba supervisor system.
No
Toshiba Value Added Package
Contains several diagnostic utilities, as well as Power Management Capabilities and also contains the utilities which let you use the FN function keys that control Display Brightness, etc
Yes
Toshiba Web Camera Application
A toolbar that contains shortcuts to webcam related settings and functions.
Yes

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