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post #21 of 25
7/24/07 at 11:05pm
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...wait i have xp...how do i do it for xp
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post #22 of 25
7/27/07 at 8:28pm
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Originally Posted by ahdomsayre View Post
kk i got it everyone. here's the grip. go to regedit and go to this folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Control Set001\\Control\\MobilePC\\HotStartButtons\\ there are 3 folders there call "1" "2" and "3" those are for your music, dvd, and tv buttons, respectively change the values of the "ApplicationPath" strings to the program path that you want each button to run. ex: "C:\\Program Files\\iTunes\\iTunes.exe" once you have all three set, you have to repeat the process for "Control Set003" and "Current Control Set" with the same sub directories as you did for control set001 after that everything works exactly how you expect it to. Why alienware won't make a program for this, i don't know. I even asked them and they said they have one for xp that microsoft made that doesn't work either, but vista is too new to have such a program... boo alienware, we shouldn't be having to figure this shit out on our own, i'm definitely not a computer programmer... nice computer though
I don't see any folders named 1, 2, and 3. In the HotStartButtons part I just have the (Default) value to play with.
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post #23 of 25
7/29/07 at 5:01pm
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Originally Posted by ahdomsayre View Post
kk i got it everyone. here's the grip. go to regedit and go to this folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Control Set001\\Control\\MobilePC\\HotStartButtons\\ there are 3 folders there call "1" "2" and "3" those are for your music, dvd, and tv buttons, respectively change the values of the "ApplicationPath" strings to the program path that you want each button to run. ex: "C:\\Program Files\\iTunes\\iTunes.exe" once you have all three set, you have to repeat the process for "Control Set003" and "Current Control Set" with the same sub directories as you did for control set001 after that everything works exactly how you expect it to. Why alienware won't make a program for this, i don't know. I even asked them and they said they have one for xp that microsoft made that doesn't work either, but vista is too new to have such a program... boo alienware, we shouldn't be having to figure this shit out on our own, i'm definitely not a computer programmer... nice computer though
Is this for xp? Because i dont see the mobile pc folder in regedit
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post #24 of 25
8/2/07 at 1:22am
this is for vista only sorry. i don't have xp installed. alcohol 316 are you using xp as well? i hope someone with xp cracks this for you as well. If you do a search in your registry for the program that those buttons execute it might lead you to the destination folder, just try looking through that with searches. that's how i found it on vista. good luck
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post #25 of 25
10/2/08 at 5:43pm
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Originally Posted by ahdomsayre View Post
kk i got it everyone. here's the grip. go to regedit and go to this folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Control Set001\\Control\\MobilePC\\HotStartButtons\\ there are 3 folders there call "1" "2" and "3" those are for your music, dvd, and tv buttons, respectively change the values of the "ApplicationPath" strings to the program path that you want each button to run. ex: "C:\\Program Files\\iTunes\\iTunes.exe" once you have all three set, you have to repeat the process for "Control Set003" and "Current Control Set" with the same sub directories as you did for control set001 after that everything works exactly how you expect it to. Why alienware won't make a program for this, i don't know. I even asked them and they said they have one for xp that microsoft made that doesn't work either, but vista is too new to have such a program... boo alienware, we shouldn't be having to figure this shit out on our own, i'm definitely not a computer programmer... nice computer though
*enthusiastic applause* I've been searching for this for a long time. I actually posted another thread on this website in hopes of an answer (somehow a search didn't turn this thread up, sorry for the repost). Thank you very much, your solution was spot on. Afterthought: I actually somewhat prefer this method to a utility, because I can set the keys to exactly what I want, not just a list of appropriate commands (TV button = WoW)
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