guide to make the play button launch media player

just for those windows media player freaks.


ok so normally when you hit the play button it loads that dell media experience crap. Through reading in another thread how you guys have sucuessfully gotten the play button to launch winamp I have slightly modified the idea whith a few required software gehtto modifications


this will not work if you have Windows media center edition so don't even try or it will get screwed up and I'm not going to be responsible because media center will no longer load.


Prerequisites/INFO

QUICKSET MUST BE INSTALLED

THE .EXE you download from me WILL ONLY WORK WITH MEDIA PLAYER 10 (it will work for media player 9 if you move the directory to c:\program files\windows media player\ )

Dell media direct is cool to have but not necessary or even a part of this modificaion.

THIS MODIFICATION WILL NOT WORK IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS MCE EDITION BUT WE ARE WORKING ON A WAY TO MAKE IT WORK.

You must use the cracked DMX.exe I provide for media player BUT IT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ANY OTHER PROGRAM so you don't need it if you plan on making the play button run winamp.




DOWNLOAD
I have the files required available to download at http://home.earthlink.net/~ozlo_neumero_uno/


the 2 files that you need to download from me are
DMX.exe (this is a .exe which only purpose in life is to open media player and then close it's self).

then you need the registry file (should be named something like MODIFY REGISTRY DMX EXE FOR MEDIA PLAYER.reg) right click and select save link as or left click to view.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. put the DMX.exe (the one you downloaded from me) file into c:\program files\windows media player\ (this step is not required for winamp)

2. run the registry file you downloaded(by double clicking it) and windows will ask if you want to add the information to the windows registry and you click yes {WARNING DOING SO may/WILL CAUSE WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER AND/OR DELL MEDIA EXPERIENCE TO NO LONGER BE RUN BY HOLDING THE PLAY BUTTON FOR 2 SECONDS}

2a.For winamp you will have to modify the path in the registry file to where the winamp .exe is located and then you will have to rename the winamp executable to DMX.EXE

2b.to run any other .exe file just follow step in 2a except use the path of the program you want to run from the play button.

3. press and hold the play button for 2 seconds and media player/winamp should run.




the reason why you can't just rename media player dmx.exe is because windows automatically renames the file back to mplayer.exe 3 seconds after you rename it... plus It probbably would not function because of the millions of programs (like firefox and IE that look for mplayer.exe) thus the reason for needing the .exe

lol same here... I deleted the dell media experience crap on day 1

but I kept the quickset program because it has the screen brighness level bar and sound volume bar that appears on the screen. The program dosen't suck up hardly any recources so I decided to keep it just for the 2 features.


AND I hardly ever use the touchpad and most of the time it's disabled because my palms move the cursor around sometimes when I type. I'm using a good ole mx510 got it the first week it came out in usa, still clicking strong.


to make it run winamp you change the path in the registry file to the winamp directory and rename the winamp.exe to DMX.exe (you don't need to download the DMX.exe in this case just rename winamp to that).




if you have quickset and it still don't work you might try this program which will launch the program when you hold the play button in (even from hibernate/standby if i'm not mistaken)

http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=123419

YOU don't need the Dell media experience file!!!!


the origional DMX.exe is not required to make the play button run windows media player or winamp for that matter, all you need to do is follow the instructions in the first post. all you need on your own is the dell quickset program. the dmx.exe and the registry hack that runs media player can be downloaded in the first post

indeed the program called quickset is what detects the 2 second play button press and loads DMX.exe

this registry hack will not work if you are running media center edition... unless you can figure out the media center .exe and then I would have to MAKE a DMX.exe Hack for that once you told me the path and name of the media center files.