Please, explain me something about HP QuickPlay

Hi, a new member here that recently also joined the HP camp by buying his first laptop(Pavilion dv6119us), and with the help of this great forum, is trying to familiarize himself with the world of laptops.
But there is something that isn't quite clear to me yet, so i'm turning to you.
Namely......when i bought my laptop i started getting rid of all that pre-installed crap that they usually come with. I then got to HP software and QuickPlay. I checked out this QuickPlay and thought it was just another media player, so i uninstalled it because i was gonna use other programs to watch my movies and listen to my music with.
After i had done this, and a few days later i accidentally hit that QuickPlay button on my laptop, and instead of booting into windows, it took me to QuickPlay where you can play your media without going into windows.
So, could somebody please explain me the difference between the two and whether these two things are connected to each other, or not? What i mean is, do i also need to have QuickPlay software installed in Windows for the non-windows QuickPlay to function properly? I personally think you do not, because i was able to play play my DVDs just fine with the non-Windows QuickPlay.
Sorry for the long explanation, but i wanted you to be sure what i meant exactly.

 

You are correct. The Windows Quickplay program is yet another media player which I've never really used, but fully supports the ExpressCard remote if you received that along with your system. Other than that, I doubt there's much reason to use the software if you have software you prefer. The other Quickplay is a boot partition that you can use without booting into Windows. I've only rarely used that (and can't at the moment as I've created three hard disk partitions) but it certainly seems more useful. Though they're called the same thing, neither depends on the other to function.

 

Thank you very much for clearing that up for me.

 

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One thing about the QuickPlay that functions from a cold boot that is a negative is that it messes with the Master Boot Record.


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