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    Dell Media Button wont work when laptop is off

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Beaster, Jul 20, 2008.

  1. Beaster

    Beaster Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guyz!

    I ve been a member for some time now, and i kept on reading posts until i got my xps 1530 last week.Its an excellent machine.Very fast , very powerfull!

    I havent reformated ,just removed the bloatware manual. I have also deleted the Dell Recovery partition and merged the free space into C:

    I am facing a problem now.. I tried to map the Dell button to windows media center and it worked great.. The only problem is that now, when the laptop is off, when i press the media button, it just boots Vista and starts media center from within Vista.. Dont know what caused the problem.. Either the registry edit, or the removal of Dell recovery. I edited the registry to re-map the key back to Dell Direct, but again when the laptop is off,it boots vista and starts media direct from Vista..

    Is there any fix for this? I have not touched the MD partition of the hard drive.Only the recovery one..

    Thx in advance guys!

    PS. This forum has helped me alot! Congrats to every single member in here!



    EDIT: I tried re installing media direct from Vista but i get an Installation Error at 10% every time
     
    Beaster, Jul 20, 2008
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    Tolkannn Notebook Evangelist

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    Mine doesnt seem to work either but I havent remapped the button...

    Hey could you tell me how to remap it please? Id love to link it to my Zune App.
     
    Tolkannn, Jul 20, 2008
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  3. Beaster

    Beaster Notebook Enthusiast

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    I edited these values:

    HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\0
    HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\0
    HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\0

    Just put the directory and file of the program you want
     
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  4. Tolkannn

    Tolkannn Notebook Evangelist

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    ok thank you
     
    Tolkannn, Jul 20, 2008
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    Tolkannn Notebook Evangelist

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    Ive got currentcontrolset, controlset001 and controlset009 not 002
     
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  6. Beaster

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    Then edit those..

    Requires a reboot
     
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    Thanks for your help... I bought my dell as a renewed product and I dont seem to have the media direct partition and i havet got a "recovry disk" can I call dell for a cd?
     
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    Sorry dont know about that..
     
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    Sorry for repeating my self..

    Anyone have a solution for my problem?

    Thx!
     
    Beaster, Jul 20, 2008
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