How to remap quickplay button win 7?

Hi,

I had a registry hack to remap the quickplay button that worked fine under XP. This is the touch sensitive control at the top of my dv5t next to the mute, volume, play controls. Under XP the location was:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\18

But it doesn't appear to work under Win 7. Does anyone know the location for Win 7?

I don't want to install Quickplay, and didn't need to under XP. All the other buttons work fine out of the box.

I've seen two locations for Vista:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CyberLink\QuickPlay
Change the key "Main" to the path of the program you want (sans the quotation marks if you copy it as a path). The original value of this is something like C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\Quickplay\OP.exe (no quotation marks). Replace that. I replaced it with C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Origami Experience Pack 2.0\Origami Experience\ox.exe (Origami central executable).

and

You can reassign the quickplay button to open any program by changing the "QAction" value in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Hewlett-Packard\HP Quick Launch Buttons].

Does anyone know for sure what the location is?

Thanks.

 

Check my signature. My program will allow you to do that and much more.

 

Thanks, I have already got your program. However, I don't really see any need to run extra programs all the time when I registry key will do all I need. I try to avoid have hundreds of little programs running if I can help it.

 

to change the Quick Play Button:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hewlett-Packard\HP Quick Launch Buttons

look for key "QAction" change the path to the program you want to launch?

Windows 7 only.

 

Well, you are already running the Quickplay program. This is a one on one exchange. So, it's not really extra. The only reason I see not to use Th3_uN1Qu3's program is if you use a an HP tablet. The Quickplay program also happens to enable the screen orientation button.

 

The Quickplay program can run under win7 ?

 

mmm hmmmmm

 

Actually I'm not running Quickplay, I won't ever touch that horrible software. All my buttons and touch controls (mute, volume slider etc) work out of the box, as they did under XP. No need to install quick play.

 

I've tried all the registry hacks.. is there one which actually works?

 

Not that I've found. If you use Sharpkeys it will detect the button correctly as per under XP, and install the same reg key as XP. But it doesn't work, so something has changed with win 7. I'm currently using autohotkey to map the scancode of that button to launch a program of my choice. I'm already using autohotkey for other things, so I don't consider this as using "another" program like the one suggested by Th3_uN1Qu3. But I would suggest using his program otherwise in the mean time.

 

The one you had for vista in post 1 works for me in windows 7 .. thanks and +rep.

 

I haven't tried the vista reg keys. You're running x64, and those keys look like x64 keys. The wow6432 node doesn't exist for me.... That sounds like a x64 thing, but it might work if I tried it. Which one worked, the first or second vista key?

 

I changed these 2 keys.. to link the quickplay button to Hp mediasmart which i managed to install... was damm troublesome but mediasmart was better so i installed that and i needed to remapp the quickplay key to mediasmart.

You indirectly helped me