HP dv6000t and Quickplay... Need help.

Ok, I purchased a dv6000t from a private seller and it had XP installed. I clean installed my own copy of Vista Premium right away. Now Quickplay doesn't work. When I press any of my Quicklaunch buttons at the top of the keyboard they just boot the laptop into windows.

After some reading I now realize that Quickplay needs its own partition to work... I can handle that... just create a new partition, right?

My question is where do I get the installation files/drivers to get it working? And also, how big do I need to make the partition?
It looks like HP only has software for the Quicklaunch buttoons on their site, not Quickplay...

I would really appreciate any help anyone could give.

Sorry if there is already a thread answering my question, but a lot of the stuff I've read is contradicting.

 

There are a three versions of Quickplay - ver 1.0, ver 2.0 and ver 3.0. The most current and officialy Vista compatible version in ver 3.0. but ver 3.0 does not contain any bootable partition on which it runs. It is totally a Windows applications and runs once Windows is booted even if you press the Quickplay button & the laptop is off.

Version 2.0 is the one which shipped with Windows XP and had a 1028MB bootable partition plus it also has a separate application to run it from within Windows. This is not really Vista compatible and in order to get it to work with Vista it is not as straight forward as with XP. I found these instructions on how to get it to work with Vist but havent yet tried it. So follow at your own risk...
http://www.asifism.com/installing-hp-quickplay-on-your-laptopnotebook-vista-xp/

The installation files are not available for download direct from HP. You can find those in the factory installed images but if you dont have it you will have to download it by other means.

 

DirectPlay is the player you boot to. v1 is Linux based, v2 is XP based. So far, HP has not been able to create a DirectPlay v3 for Vista. So with Vista systems, when you press a Quick Button, Vista has to load, and then launch QuickPlay.

You might be able to get DirectPlay v2 to work with Vista, but you need to install it before you install Vista (otherwise you will kill Vista). I don't think anyone has had success installing DirectPlay with Vista yet.

QuickPlay, on the other hand, is the Windows based player. Use v3, and it should work fine. http://www.asifism.com has the files available for download. You will need to search the site for a download code. If there isn't an updated one, make a post there somewhere requesting one (he has to keep his bandwidth throttled, or else his host will charge him for overage or cancel his account).

 

Thank you for your help.
I actually found and installed Quick Play from HP's site here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=ob-50934-1&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&dlc=en&lang=en

Of course, that's the in-Windows version...

Don't wanna mess with my Vista install, so I guess I'll just wait until they get it figured out for Vista...

 

hmm that's weird I just used to one for vista x86 for my dv2500t on HP's site
and it works fine