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    Quickplay / DVD Boot in Vista

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Jcoeny, Feb 20, 2007.

  1. Jcoeny

    Jcoeny Notebook Enthusiast

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    I thought that the quickplay and DVD touch keys above the keyboard were supposed to start those programs without booting the operating system. However, on my dv9000t with Vista, this is not the case, it goes through the whole boot process then launches the application. Is this feature not available in Vista?

    Thanks for your help.
     
    Jcoeny, Feb 20, 2007
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  2. Airman

    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    The Quickplay feature is embedded in a seperate hibernating partition in both XP and Vista. So after pressing the Quickplay it should still take alittle time for the Quickplay program to come out of the hibernating mode and to boot.
     
    Airman, Feb 20, 2007
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  3. Seth Oriath

    Seth Oriath Notebook Consultant

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    Mine boots up Windows and opens Quickplay (either the main menu or the DVD menu depending on the button pressed). :-(
     
    Seth Oriath, Feb 20, 2007
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  4. swissair

    swissair Notebook Guru

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    It's normal if you have Vista.
    There is no QuickPlay partition.
     
    swissair, Feb 20, 2007
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  5. JadedRaverLA

    JadedRaverLA Notebook Deity

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    Ditto what swissair said. There IS NO Quickplay partition on the systems that shipped with Vista preinstalled -- and HP's Vista Upgrade Utility (should you choose to use it) which helps upgrade XP systems to Vista also removes the Quickplay partition. For whatever reason, HP decided that it's usefulness was done.
     
    JadedRaverLA, Feb 20, 2007
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  6. Jcoeny

    Jcoeny Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks, that is good to know, I just thought it wasn't set up right or something. If only they would come out with a Vista utility to program the Quick Launch buttons, then they might not be completely useless.
     
    Jcoeny, Feb 20, 2007
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    aha29 Newbie

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    does anyone know if windows media centre can start without booting windows?
     
    aha29, Nov 2, 2007
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