http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: (Solveld) - HP Quickplay buttons en Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:52:13 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons/page/2#post-82288 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:48:38 +0000 rubygirl 82288@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I have been annoyed by the button beep from day one. Thank you so much for telling us how to turn it off! Went into the BIOS and disabled the button sounds, and it worked like a charm. Buttons still work, no annoying beep. THANK YOU!! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons/page/2#post-71083 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:34:14 +0000 chintanu 71083@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>HP Pavilion dv5 1009 AX<br /> Windows Vista</p> <p>The QuickPlay mute button of my notebook is permanently glowing red (except towards the end of shutting down or at the beginning of restarting the notebook - when it glows normally). The mute button works well, otherwise ---- except that I can't differentiate just by looking at the it as it is always red. I changed Bios and reinstalled quickplay program too, taking the suggestions from the customer care. Now, they are asking to system-restore - but I am not very eager as I wish to keep it as the last option. </p> <p>Any suggestions ? I can see that Balonzo has also written about a somewhat similar issue. Any comment, Balonzo ? </p> <p>Thanks ! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons/page/2#post-50950 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:11:08 +0000 oRZ 50950@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hello all,<br /> I use a HP Pavilion dv9500.<br /> I disabled my Quickplay program button a while ago by uninstalling something, I'm not sure what now :( But my mute and volume, as well as play/pause forward/back buttons were still working up till a month or two ago. At the moment, the buttons still glow blue, and I can still change the volume on my computer, but they just aren't responding anymore. I found the mute button really useful and would like to use it;; I'm not sure if this is the problem with the sensitivity of the buttons not reading my harsh jabbing, or something not right with the system itself. Is there a way to find out if it detects me pressing it? Or does anyone know a solution?<br /> Thanks! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons/page/2#post-47442 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:41:14 +0000 Eion 47442@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I just wanted to post my sincere thanks to the Original Poster, you helped me disable those annoying buttons on my laptop, and without a stressful line of tact. I am glad I didnt have to remove or delete anything, or risk messing up the computer to get it to do what it was that I wanted to do. I want you to know that I signed up just to show my thanks. Kudos, and keep up the good work. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons/page/2#post-46484 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:22:59 +0000 Lighthouse 46484@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thankyou Anna :) I hope you remember us if you are ever unfortunate again. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons/page/2#post-46481 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:18:37 +0000 Anna 46481@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thank you so much. It was wasting so much time and driving me mad! I finally Googled it and came across this thread and I followed your instructions! :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons/page/2#post-46168 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:31:42 +0000 beaurippy 46168@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>(im on the HP dv6000 Special Edition -- running Vista)</p> <p>I had to take Sjac's post a step farther -- i followed his exactly and my QP buttons still would not die (yes die, i was at the point where i just wanted to kill them) -- so i got drastic -- i discovered where the files were located -- So i went : (on Desktop) Computer /C:/Hewlett-Packard -- From there i 'Cut' the "HPQuicklaunch" Folder and 'Paste' to a new folder on the desktop. Then i right clicked the folder and Renamed it "QLPieceofS**t" Then i right clicked it again and went to Properties - Security Tab - System - and i checked 'Deny' next to 'Read &#38; Execute'. Then VWALLAA no more Slow QuickPlay :)<br /> --i'm sure there is a better way to do this but everything im not a professional and i've never coded a day in my life --with the exception of Alice lol </p> <p>--anyway hope this fixes anyone elses problems who STILL had the Curse of the QuickPlay </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-29989 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:32:58 +0000 rene123 29989@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Dear Anyone!</p> <p>I've had an hp dv6000 laptop (XP) for about a year and a half; it's been a love-hate affair. Most recently the power button has stopped working completely (note the warranty is also conveniently up). The only chance I have of starting it when it does turn off is that little quick play button (who woulda thought the thing could ever be useful???) I've pushed it accidental more times than I care to recall and have been annoyed by it since day 1. Now I'm hoping it can be my new best friend. Is there anyway I can code the thing to act like a power button? I.e. to boot directly into windows (I'm using XP)? At the moment the best I can get is to turn it on and hit ESC and do a CD boot into recovery mode before being able to "restart" into windows. It's a bit awkward.</p> <p>Your help and any relevant links are appreciated! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-28453 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:32:02 +0000 sjac 28453@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Glad to see it was helpful to everyone! It sure was for me!</p> <p>@Balonzo - That is a very weird issue indeed! I would advise checking your BIOS version, and upgrading/downgrading as necessary. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-28429 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:06:25 +0000 dannnnnn 28429@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Oh man this is so helpful. I am always hitting that button and it got so annoying.</p> <p>By the way, if you want to get rid of those programs without having to restart (the first time), you can go to the processes in task manager and end the processes "QLBCTRL.exe" and "QPSERVICE.exe". After changing msconfig, they won't start up any more when you restart, but this is how to get rid of them before restart as well.</p> <p>Thanks for mentioning this. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-26001 Sun, 25 May 2008 04:42:22 +0000 OneGyT 26001@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Just wanted to say I Googled "disable hp quickplay" and this was the first result. I haven't restarted yet but I would think it'd work. Thanks so very much! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-25699 Thu, 22 May 2008 06:43:46 +0000 Aleeve 25699@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@Dips &#38; Balonzo<br /> restart your computers, because that has worked for me whenever my quick play buttons were not working</p> <p>@balonzo - I guess you have tried system restore? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-25664 Thu, 22 May 2008 01:32:20 +0000 whs 25664@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Post removed - did not work </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-25533 Wed, 21 May 2008 06:30:22 +0000 balonzo 25533@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I have been struggling with an issue with the Mute button on my Quick Play bar. Here are my vitals:</p> <p>HP Pavilion dv9723cl<br /> Windows Vista</p> <p>The mute button is permanently showing red and no sound is coming from my laptop. when I press the mute button, the sound icon in the taskbar appears to unmute/mute at will, but the Quick Play button remains red and the system is muted.</p> <p>This happened once before about 2 weeks after I bought the machine and tech support had me restore the system to facotry install. It has been about 1 month and the same issue has occurred. I have tried countless things to resolve it but I am at a loss. </p> <p>I have searched and I appear to be the only one experiencing this issue. Does anyone know of a fix for this?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-23524 Fri, 09 May 2008 10:23:03 +0000 sjac 23524@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Well my method stops quickplay from launching, but the other buttons (back, forward, stop, play, mute and volume) will still work as they are system buttons. Personally i find them handy, seeing as 1) i never use the next/stop etc buttons for anything, so it doesnt matter if i push them, and 2) muting and unmuting via the QL buttons is much faster than the manual way.</p> <p>And as they are system buttons, they must be configurable by the registry, similar to the caps lock thing that you tried. Unfortunately i am not good with the registry, so i can't help you there. Though i am sure someone here will be able to help! Which buttons exactly did you want disabled?</p> <p>I guess you could just remap 8 to 7, 32 to d etc... Though that would have the interesting side effect of pushing the unmute button and ending up typing a "b" or something!</p> <p>And yeah, HP made their buttons difficult to customise because they wanted people using their QP software! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-22905 Tue, 06 May 2008 09:54:12 +0000 rulers 22905@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Update:</p> <p>I have tried searching the registry for anything QLB-related, but only found following two locations:</p> <p>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Software Explorers\Disabled RunKey\Run<br /> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-239277579-2818820354-3002204094-1006\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel</p> <p>These are just Disabled or Adjusted properties, and probably of no use. So to me it appears that there is nothing I can do using registry.</p> <p>Tried searching the hard drive for "qlb" or "quick launch", but apart from some folders and system log files, also little help (There were two folders "QLB" and "QLBTEMP" in C:/SWSetup. I tried removing these folders, and restarting computer, but QL buttons still work)</p> <p>One more idea I had was to disable the keys through registry. Some time ago I succeded in disabling the Caps Lock key, using the following procedure:</p> <p>Go to Start → Run → regedit<br /> Go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout<br /> Right-click on the right half of the screen and choose New → Binary<br /> Name the new Value Scancode Map<br /> Enter 00000000000000000200000000003A0000000000<br /> Close the "Registry Editor" by selecting "Exit" from the "File" menu.<br /> Reboot.</p> <p>The "3A" in above code it hexadecimal (Scan Code) referring to the Caps Lock. So my idea was to use corresponding hexadecimals for QL buttons, to disable them. To find the hexadecimals I used KeyView program (<a href='http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/tef/wintools/keyview.exe'>http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/tef/wintools/keyview.exe</a>). I found following Scan Codes for the QL buttons (left to right)</p> <p>Decimal: 89, 8, 32, 46, 48 (all except bluetooth button)<br /> Hex: 59, 8, 20, 2e, 30</p> <p>However, there are overlaps with my existing keyboard buttons:</p> <p>8 - overlaps with "7"<br /> 32 - overlaps with "d"<br /> 46 - overlaps with "c"<br /> 48 - overlaps with "b"</p> <p>So clearly there are problems using this method. The KeyView program picks up the QL buttons having same Scan Codes as some existing buttons, so I doubt I can disable QL buttons like this.</p> <p>I'm not sure what else to try ... may be the only solution is to go to a computer shop and ask them to open up my laptop and unplug the QLB bar.</p> <p>Too bad HP made so difficult to customise its product. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-22878 Tue, 06 May 2008 03:45:32 +0000 rulers 22878@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I have a similar problem, I accidently press some buttons, like the volume and its a nuisance. I really hate these buttons and want to disable them .... but there is no option to do so!! Tried to unisntall the HP Quick Buttons software, but not helps either.</p> <p>Can anyone help disable the buttons? Maybe something can be changed in the registery (say, changing the button keys to zero 000000000000). Anyone help? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-10490 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:50:02 +0000 jennykilbo 10490@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>SJAC, Thanks a million!! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-4728 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:34:42 +0000 Dips 4728@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I have just re-installed my windows because my wireless drivers were distroyed during a windows update. i reinstalled windows and installed vista, vista would not let me do an upgrade so have to do a custom install which meant a fresh install and loss of all programs and files. so now i have lost everything. how to a get the quickplay buttons working. when i press the dvd or quickplay button nothing happens and when i mute the color no longer changes either.. strange? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hp-quickplay-buttons#post-4334 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:41:30 +0000 Figowitz 4334@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Man am I glad to finally get rid of those annoying buttons!<br /> Thank you very, very much. My life just got a lot easier :) </p>