Media Center Buttons stopped working 7811

Does anyone know how to get the music and dvd button to bring up the media center, when i first got this laptop they were working and I havnt used them since. I tried yesterday and nothing happened. The play, pause, stop and mute work though. Any Ideas? I tried looking through other threads but couldnt find anything.

 

Have you reformatted your drives recently and forgot to set them up?

 

i did reformat when i first took the pc out of the box and the buttons were working, I tried uninstalling, reinstalling drivers. nothing

 

maybe I dont have the correct driver or something

 

What OS are you using? Vista 32 or 64?

 

vista 64 bit os

 

Ok to verify your install you can go into Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > MobilePC > HotStartButtons > 1 (or 2 or 3)

You can verify the application path for your hotstart keys.

1 should be "C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe"

2 should be "C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe" /directmedia:music

3 should be "C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe" /directmedia:discplayback

Also navigate in windows explorer to verify the C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe directory and application exist.

 

weird, yea when i go into hotstart buttons only a default entry, no 1 2 or 3

 

i do have the eshell app and directory

 

does the application exist in the C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe directory? If so you can add the application pathways yourself. Or you can just try to uninstall and reinstall.

 

hey warlord thanks for all thehelp, any way you could post what your eshell.exe looks like so i could do a copy, paste possibly? not really sure where I should be entering those lines of text in

 

sure this attached image is a screen cap of key folder 1 with the application pathway string open in editor:

I think this is what you want, right?

 

yea that was what I was looking for, and whenever you can get the shell.exe also

 

I'm not too sure what you're looking for here but:

 

well I have all the entries in the regedit, and the eshell.exe on my pc. Do i Need to change the text around in the ehshell.exe config file?

 

Probably not. Here's the code, if you want to double check:

PHP:

<configuration>

    <startup>
        <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727" />
    </startup>

    <runtime>
        <assemblyBinding
         xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
            <dependentAssembly>
                <assemblyIdentity
                  name="Microsoft.MediaCenter" 
                  publicKeyToken="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" 
                  culture="neutral" 
                />
                <bindingRedirect
                  oldVersion="6.0.3000.0"
                  newVersion="6.0.6000.0"
                />
                <bindingRedirect
                  oldVersion="6.0.3100.0"
                  newVersion="6.0.6000.0"
                />
            </dependentAssembly>
        </assemblyBinding>
    </runtime>

</configuration>

 

yea, its same.. so must be somewhere else that the problem is

 

did you reboot already? What do your registry entries look like?

 

I made 3 keys in hotstart buttons and added in string entries for what you wrote on the first page for each one, and the names I did ApplicationPatch for all or is that wrong?

 

The value name in each string is:

ApplicationPath

The value data for each string I posted earlier, if you can do a screen cap for one of them I can verify.

 

Sorry to hijack the thread but I did a clean install of Vista64 and my media keys haven't worked since. Can anyone (Warlord?) post a link to the media keys application software? I'd appreciate it. I've searched and searched the Gateway site with no luck at all. Thanks.

 

go to gateway site and search for "hotstart utility". It will come up as a Vista 32-bit compatable program but it's compatable with Vista 64 as well.

The same is true for the webcam and audio drivers too. I don't have my recovery disk on me since I'm at work but if someone pops it in their DVD drive it will let you know which drivers are both 32 and 64 bit compatable.

 

Thanks, worked like a charm. Just in case others need it search on Hot Start Utility.

Rep for you!

 

When I did a clean install of Ultimate x64 I lost the buttons too. How do you add them back?
Talks about the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > MobilePC > HotStartButtons > 1 (or 2 or 3)
Here
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=292157


EDIT, I re-read the thread (that rhymes) and figured it out, so ignore.