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    Any way to assign things to the top buttons?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Hahutzy, Feb 14, 2008.

  1. Hahutzy

    Hahutzy Notebook Deity

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    Right now, my "=>", music and DVD buttons do nothing... I kinda want to assign things to them so they'll actually be useful.

    I'm using XP btw. But the play stop mute etc. buttons work, the 3 I mentioned above do not.
     
    Hahutzy, Feb 14, 2008
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    they are pre assigned...the dvd one is windows media center and the music one is windows media player....just for vista though.....im sure that can be changed but i do not know how...sorry!
     
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    Figures... Either they need to release a driver that includes settings, or maybe the buttons can be reassigned in Linux.

    Oh well, there goes my idea for "Stealth Mode" for now...
     
    Hahutzy, Feb 14, 2008
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    Change following path to your desired program.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\1]
    "ApplicationPath"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\wmplayer.exe\""
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\2]
    "ApplicationPath"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\wmplayer.exe\""
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\3]
    "ApplicationPath"="\"C:\\Program Files\\CyberLink\\PowerDVD\\PowerDVD.exe\""

    Works in Vista. Don't know about XP.
     
    peteryorkuca, Feb 15, 2008
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    After some research, I found out that those regs belong to Direct Application Launch, which is introduced in Vista.

    I'm sad now =(
     
    Hahutzy, Feb 15, 2008
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    I used my Gateway Driver and App Recovery disc and once I reinstalled the Cyberlink software I am able to use the buttons and now my hot start button works as well.As far as assigning the buttons to certain functions I am not sure how or if it can be done.
     
    flamarc, Feb 25, 2008
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    I went into regedit, and went to the hotstartbuttons section as you listed and only found a (default), there is no 1, or 2, etc. Did I not install something correctly? And btw, when you say 1, is that starting at => or is 1 starting at the music symbol button? Anyways, thanks for all your help.
     
    zergslayer69, Feb 25, 2008
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    Just add that in there. Attached is above in reg file. Change cyber.txt to cyber.reg and double click. Forum won't let you upload .reg or .rar or some reason.
     

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    peteryorkuca, Feb 26, 2008
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    Peculiar, I downloaded the txt and I saved it as a .reg. I installed it, it said successful. Then it's still not in the registry. o.o Under hotstartbuttons is still only default. Any ideas what's going on?
     
    zergslayer69, Feb 28, 2008
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    If you have recovery disk or recovery partition, go *:\i386\apps\App000943 and double click on hotstart.cmd

    That might get you rolling.
     
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    Are all the methods you guys wrote Vista-only?
     
    Hahutzy, Feb 28, 2008
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    As far as I know, I believe we're all talking about vista, and unfortunately I formatted my partition. I'll have to check my driver cd which I don't know how to use =p
     
    zergslayer69, Feb 28, 2008
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    So is there a clear way to change those keys? Feels to use MC just to play some music...
     
    Dragoonx, Feb 29, 2008
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    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\1]
    "ApplicationPath"="\" C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\wmplayer.exe\""

    Go to regeditor and change above path for button #1 to direct to a different app.

    Same deal with Windows Media Center registry ;


    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartButtons\1]
    "ApplicationPath"="\ "C:\\Windows\\ehome\\ehshell.exe\""

    Change above path to your desired program.
     
    peteryorkuca, Feb 29, 2008
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