change the Q button on quicktouch panel

Anyone know how to change the Q button or DVD button to point to a different program? perhaps winamp or intervideo windvd?

 

I'm looking for a solution to this as well.

 

mines doesn't work neither the dvd

 

Here's what I'm using:

dv9000t XP: HP Quick Launch Buttons Version: 6.10 A2

I just tried changing the 'Q' to winamp and it seems to work fine.

It runs as a taskbar applet that looks like a rocket

 

how did u do it

 

It seems hp.com removed quick launch buttons utility from their website because of security vulnerability. I thought hp said they would release fixed software in February (but now I can't find where they say that).

 

hp disabled a lot of quickplay functions when they moved from xp to vista (such as customization of buttons and QuickplayDirect)

 

I use autohotkey ( www.autohotkey.com) on my dv9500t...

1) install autohotkey
2) open notepad
3) paste the following into notepad:

SC10E:: ;right one on dv9500t (dvd button)
run %ProgramFiles%\Maxthon\maxthon.exe
return

SC108:: ;left one (Q button)
Run, outlook.exe
return

All you have to do is replace the bold text with the path/location of the file you want to run. Basically, if you can start > run the executable, then that's all you have to enter (like outlook.exe) but for other apps, you'll have to enter the full path (like maxthon.exe)

4) once that's done, save the file as something.ahk somewhere safe that you can remember. i also have the file set to run on startup (shortcut into the startup folder)

5) now you can set the buttons to run whatever you want!

6) fyi this also works for the media buttons

hope that helps...autohotkey is really simple to learn and you can do a lot of stuff with it. i have no affiliation with autohotkey whatsoever; just thought i'd try and give something back to this great forum!

 

Very nice!

 

Thanks a lot for that info. Going to try it later. I'll let you know how it went.

 

I tried AutoHotKey - it appears my DV9035nr with Vista doesn't generate a scan code for the Quick Launch Buttons. I really wish I could get it to run something other than QuickPlay. Anyone else got a solution?

 

Did you try this, from the help file:

If your keyboard or mouse has a key not listed above, you might still be able to make it a hotkey by using the following steps (requires Windows XP/2000/NT or later):

Ensure that at least one script is running that is using the keyboard hook. You can tell if a script has the keyboard hook by opening its main window and selecting "View->Key history" from the menu bar.
Double-click that script's tray icon to open its main window.
Press one of the "mystery keys" on your keyboard.
Select the menu item "View->Key history"
Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Somewhere near the bottom are the key-down and key-up events for your key. NOTE: Some keys do not generate events and thus will not be visible here. If this is the case, you cannot directly make that particular key a hotkey because your keyboard driver or hardware handles it at a level too low for AutoHotkey to access. For possible solutions, see further below.
If your key is detectible, make a note of the 3-digit hexadecimal value in the second column of the list (e.g. 159).
To define this key as a hotkey, follow this example:
SC159:: ; Replace 159 with your key's value.
MsgBox, %A_ThisHotKey% was pressed.
return


That's how I found out what the buttons were in my case...good luck~

 

Yes... verified keyboard hook active, but it never captures the key. Maybe it's a Vista thing... no matter what, it launches HP QuickPlay. Grrr.

 

Just just gave it a try here with the Vista ulimate.


No Joy!

Nice Try.

 

Great. It worked. Very simple and explained very well. My only problem. Do I have to load the .ahk file every time I want to switch those buttons.? Or is there a way to make it automatically run?

 

Try disable the quickplay buttons in MSConfig and then reboot. I think there's a system service involved with it as well. After you disable it the buttons will do nothing and you could try binding them and activating them with autohotkey.

 

that might be it...I don't have the quickplay software installed - dv9500t with vista ult...

and yes, the ahk file always has to be running - i put a shortcut to it in my startup folder.

 

Me neither, I have the software installed but I took it off my startup and the autohotkey prog worked