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    Hot Keys are driving me insane!!!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by doc0047, Jun 24, 2009.

  1. doc0047

    doc0047 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone. First off, I love this Forum!!! :D Great things coming from great people!

    My problem is with my hotkeys, but it may just be UAC. I can't tell and it's making me crazy.

    - I have Windows 7 RC on a g50vt-b1

    - I installed all drivers right from ASUSTek

    - I added Hcontrol.exe to startup programs and it will NOT turn on my hot keys after restart

    - BUT, if I double click on the Hcontrol.exe after startup, they work fine

    - I've honestly tried every way I know of to include Hcontrol in the startup (shell:startup, regedit, startup folder with all users and just me, etc)

    - MSCONFIG shows Hcontrol.exe enabled

    - Task Manger shows all ATK drivers active EXCEPT for HControl.exe

    - It's flashing the screen and prompting for UAC permission when I manually start Hcontrol,exe

    - I've editied permissions to run as admin and even created a workaround in the Command Prompt to try and exclude Hcontrol.exe from needing UAC

    Any ideas to have Hcontrol.exe automatically start with windows?
     
    doc0047, Jun 24, 2009
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    Templar001 Notebook Guru

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    Wow that sucks, partially the reason I switched back to Vista 64.

    But im curious as well so Ill bump this thread.
     
    Templar001, Jun 24, 2009
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    Matrinix Notebook Consultant

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    Applications that require UAC elevation will not automatically run at startup unless the user account that runs it is elevated (such as the Administrator account), this is the case for both Vista and Windows 7. I am curious as to why it doesn't automatically work for Windows 7. Does it run as a Service in Windows Vista? How is it configured in Vista?
     
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    doc0047 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you for the reply.
    There are no other user accounts and I am the Admin.
    I'm not sure what you mean by "running as a service in Vista"
    It runs fine as a service in Vista and 7, but only after I manually open the program.
    There is a Windows 7/G50 guide to "running smoothly" or something like that, and that user said that he just added it to his startup programs and it worked fine in Windows 7.
    Yet, I can't see what I could be doing wrong :(
    I'm currently playing around with Winamp so I can manually reprogram the volume and play/pause/track buttons. That seems to be working well.
    My only concern is that the G50V and G50Vt keyboards seem to suck pretty bad. I've gotten one replaced already, and when I got a replacement model after 3 RMA's, the keyboard is bulging out in the middle, as the one from my old G50V. Different problem then UAC crap, but that's my current status.

    Boy, do I like the specs on these G50's though! Can't wait to see the G51 in person, cuz it could be really sexy, or really corny.
     
    doc0047, Jun 26, 2009
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