Windows 7 Hot Start Buttons...

Does anybody know how to get the hot start buttons to work in Windows 7 besides with the Windows Media Center? Ive edited, restarted, etc etc... and am kind of fed up heh.... so if anyone knew I would appreciate it.....

I have also been having trouble Turbo Memory to enable......

Any input is greatly appreciated

 

Pin to taskbar.

 

meh.... thnx for the input but I really want to get the media buttons to work.... thats what they are there for right? heh.... Anybody else? Iata? Seems like something you could figure out..... Im gonna keep trying until a solution...

 

I've got the same problem here but I'm using Server 2K8, and my media buttons doens't work anymore, just dead ...

 

You mean your media buttons don't work at all in Windows 7? I use mediamonkey for my music and my media buttons work with that.

 

Its not literally the media buttons such as play, stop, backwards, forwards, and mute.... those buttons work fine

That being said,
....the 3 buttons such as the =>, music note, and DVD do absolutely nothing no matter what program you assign the place to in regedit unless you leave all three buttons at the default such as the windows media center... which I never use...

Ive been trying to manually assign the location of the program as the shortcuts for the three hot start buttons....

If anybody has figured it out let me know...

 

ok...how do you normally do that so I can switch it in Vista. I've looked and never have time to find the answer.

 

use a thing called "hotstart" you can find it on the gateway website...and then you can edit what you want the buttons to do in the registry... i have my music note open winamp and the DvD opens media player classic

the registry tree goes like this
Computer
Hkey local machine
system
current control set
control
mobile pc
Hot start buttons
(then it shoes buttons 1-5) you can only edit 1-3 the =>,music,Dvd
..............................
(i re-read your post and found out you already know about the registry... the one thing that made them work for me was, in the registry when you enter the path to the program you want...leave the quote marks)

 

Alright.... thnx, but the main question is if you are using Windows 7 or not.... because I can get it to work with xp/vista....

 

I'm semi thread jacking, and I applogize in advance, but are you saying your DVD and music note button work in XP? I could only get them to work using intellitype and just randomly picking a keyboard (media pro from MS as I remember) and even then only one of them works and not well. Did you check to see if the hotstart buttons were properly ID'd in the device manager? They should be under system devices as ACPI buttons PNP0C32 or something like that.

 

Well... thats the the thing, I only installed XP for testing purposes a few days after I got my 6860FX back in May so its a little fuzzy, but I was sure if you could map the hotstart buttons into regedit such as the default ones that came with the gateway would work..... but then again I just read an official microsoft document that really only specifies the hotstart buttons for vista.... and im sure that there is a way to get it to work with XP... I just dont have time to test with it because I am now investing time in Windows 7

On that note....I certainly am saying that my DVD, music note, and the arrow button do not work in Windows 7....I checked the device manager and it displays the 3 buttons referenced as "Direct Application Launch Button." Everything seems to check out expect for the fact that if you change the location from the default, that comes with the FX (Windows Media Center).....If you change any of the pathways to WMP, or IE, or other locations the buttons simply do not work...Ive been trying and trying and nothing is seeming to work.... Thanks for the idea though

 

Hi, I've been having this problem until a while ago In my previous installation of Vista Hot Start was working seamlessly, as well as until about two weeks ago on my win 7 x64. I connected it to driver updates but couldn't find the source. After reading this thread I tried reverting to default values of registry entries (eshell, WMP) with no success.
Some time ago I disabled autostart for all devices. Then I enabled it once again but it never started to work. I somehow overlooked it and forgot about it (it's rarely useful for me).
After some research, I realized that the document that I've been ignoring previously had the answer: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/hotstart.mspx (link's on the right). The crucial info is on page 6. After reading this document, I enabled Autostart manually through registry editor, as value 0xff that was set also blocks Hot Start (any other is good). For fine-tuning autostart, visit: http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_registry_autorun.htm . Hope that helps