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HP laptop help
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Hi,
This was a "feature" that HP built into many of their pavilion laptops, so that you can watch a DVD without having to power the laptop on. Do you use the quickplay software at all? If not i guess you could try uninstalling it, however i am not 100% sure this will work so you might want to do a backup first. I will look around for how to stop it turning on with a push of the button..
Well, I have an Acer laptop with similar kind of buttons to what i think you have
although only one of them turns laptop into dvd mode (when its off) and that is a physical press-button rather than touch like the rest of them
Anyway
I can access the properties by going through the mouse settings
If you have Vista
go to control panel-hardware and sound-mouse-and then above the tabs that are windows default (buttons, pointers, pointer options, wheel, hardware)
there should be one or two more tabs that will be for your buttons on laptop
(i hope anyway)
they have the red synaptics logo next to them too
mine looks like this: 
the tabs i have (very badly) highlighted in snipping tool are the ones I am referring to
With regards to XP, i think it is pretty similar, just the mouse options are in a slightly different place?
i just talked with a HP tech online, and they told me that the Quickplay buttons were patented feature of HP, so they can't be disabled. So, the only way i can stop my laptop from powering on would be for me to uninstall Quickplay altogether. Unfortunately, doing so would disable all the buttons, including the volume control (which i like) :(
Hmmmm, you know i'm not 100% sure it WILL disable the volume buttons and stuff, because in my solution in the other thread mentioned above, not letting the quickplay software start up still lets you use fast forward, play, rewind, stop, mute, and volume. But i'm not sure about that which is why i recommended a backup of some sort first (Vista would let you do system restore to the previous day), as i am not sure you can reinstall the QP software if you uninstall it. Can anyone confirm this?
Odd that a member w/'7' listed posts to credit, says HP says QP buttons can't be disabled (whoever heard of OEM Support actually supporting the user, as opposed supporting the OEM?).
Just as odd that another member w/2500+ posts seemed to buy into it the heresay, especially when there're quite a few other posts right here on this forum that describe numerous ways to disable, even uninstall QuickPlay and/or it's buttons (some of which reportedly are a function of TouchPad, not QP.
Even odder no means on this forum to PM members either to relate something privately and/or to contact a member who issue was strung into another post's string which was supposed 'solved' and closed while the string twister's post was never answered.
And so being new here, judging by the state of the forum, likely replies aren't afforded email notices to the postee? Whatever. Maybe someone will help improve the forum, ie; moderators or more moderators, PM-ability, etc.).
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