Toxico, I'm using Vista Home Premium

I poked through the registry a bit and didn't find any value that would, by itself, start Quickplay on Windows' startup. That being said, I don't have the issue on my machine and I can't reproduce it unless I stick the Quickplay icon in my Startup folder.

What file types is Quickplay set up to handle? I'm wondering if something else is trying to load on startup that Quickplay is trying to handle, like a .wav file or a .mp3 or even a movie. Does Quickplay actually try to do anything, or does it just load and sit there?

It's far from an elegant solution, but you might try uninstalling Quickplay (make sure you have the install files handy in your SwSetup folder, or download them from either of the links earlier in this thread if you don't). Reboot, possibly do a registry clean (TweakNow has a free download that can be used with Vista) to remove leftover values associated with Quickplay and then reinstall. I'd check the file associations first though.

Toxico, I finally figured out what was causing Quick Play to launch, on my dv6265us you can touch the quick launch bar to start the computer or you can press the start button, if I touch the quick launch bar to start the computer it also launches Quick Play, if I press the start button it doesn't, to many frills

Toxico, thanks for all your help I really appreciate it

No problem; I guess it was the simplest explanation in the end! I tend to overthink things...

toxico, im having a major problem here.
Im running windows vista.
I did what u told me to.Creating a partition named X (1GB) and installing HPQPDP. When the setup is completed i restarted the computer. It didnt boot into windows or quickplay, instead it went to System Recovery Options page.
Please help me.really.Is the computer booting into X?

Hi Friends

Anyone here discovered yet any way to install QP 3.0 and Direct Play on Vista?

I read all topic and thinking to install version 2.3 but i think any Master here discover a way to install 3.0 for us.

Thanks All

O.O

I'm really sorry to have left you hanging for a few days with something this serious! I got rear-ended on the way to work the other day and have been laid up.

If it's booting to the system recovery screen it's certainly not booting to the correct partition. What SHOULD happen after restart is that the machine will boot to the Quickplay partition, X:, and finish up installation.

Best guess here is that the partition you created for Quickplay is not the last partition on the drive. It has to be in order for the install to work, because your boot record is changed temporarily to boot off of the last partition.

Will the system boot to the recovery options no matter what you press? By that I mean, does it do the same thing whether or not you use the power button or the Quickplay buttons?

If that's the case, you may be in for some complication. Two things to try first:

- First, try the easy way: When the machine is booting, keep hitting F8 to see if you get the boot menu. This way you might be able to restore a good configuration, boot Vista in Safe Mode or at least boot to a comand prompt. If you can only do one of the last two, see below the next point for info on editing the boot information.

- I'm not terribly familiar with the recovery options as I've never used them personally, but you should have an option to try and repair Windows (Startup Repair). You might try that; it might fix your boot information for you as that's part of what it is designed to do. You can also try System Restore from the recovery options if this doesn't work.

Ultimately, if the recovery options don't fix your boot info or you can't load a previous config from the boot menu, you'll need to get access to the C: drive and edit the boot information yourself to make C: your primary boot partition again. You can use BCDEdit.exe to do this, but if you can't boot into Vista it won't be easy to run it. Some links to information on this are below; in the Microsoft article, the meat of what you will need to do will be under "8. Change the default boot entry." Ignore the steps about enabling debugging because they don't apply. Definitely look over the whole article, though, so you know what you're getting into.

Here is the article: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver...bug_vista.mspx

There's no easy way to make a boot disk for Vista, unless you can get to another Vista machine. Here are some instructions: http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=55427

Note that the article talks about a floppy disk; you'll be using a CD instead.

You can also try something like VistaBootPRO, though I cannot vouch for its effectiveness in your situation: http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php



Whatever method you use, the first thing you want to do when you can boot back into Vista is go back to Disk Management and get rid of that Quickplay partition you made! This will at least take you back to square one.

Assuming that my initial guess is the problem, once you get back to booting into Vista the only ways to get that 1GB partition to be the last one on the drive will be:

a) Somehow shrink the recovery partition by 1GB so the free space is at the end of the drive - I do not know if this can be done;
b) Delete the recovery partition so that there is no other partition after your boot partition. If you're going to go this route, CREATE YOUR RECOVERY CDs FIRST; or
c) Use a different application capable of moving partitions. Partition Magic Pro could do it easily in XP, but I'd hesitate to use it in Vista. I've gotten version 8.0 working with Vista but haven't used it to modify any partitions for fear of error.

Logically speaking, you probably shrunk your Vista partition, which is the first partition on the drive, and created the X: partition out of the free space after this, which sticks X: in between the first partition and the previously second partition, which is usually the recovery partition. This is not good, because the X: partition that Quickplay will use HAS to be the last one on the drive, like so:



This is my hard drive as shown by Disk Management. C: is my Vista boot partition, D: is just a partition I have for storing install files for applications and whatnot, and the unnamed 1.00 GB partition is what you have after Quickplay installs properly. Note that I don't have the recovery partition anymore, because I deleted it.


I hope my rambling here helps you. Please let me know. I will keep trying to help if this doesn't do it.

For those struggling with QP 1.4:

I stumbled across this thread while trying to sort through my own problems with WP 1.4 freezing on my DV1170. I had wiped the drive, reinstalled, but allowed the 240 MB. I even had the quickplay disc to reinstall, but it would keep freezing when it showed "loading quickplay". As it turns out, I also had to install InterVideo WinDVD to make quickplay work (this is also available on the HP web page with the drivers). Nowhere does HP explain that this need be installed for Quickplay to work. Seems kinda goofy to me that basically a stand alone OS must access my windows partition to grab -well i'm not even sure what- from WinDVD to work. I'm wondering if a lot of people struggling with QP installs have a similar type problem.

Wow, thanks for the info; I wasn't aware of that. I don't believe I ever had a version of QP older than 2.x (I have a dv1680us so I suppose it's possible), or didn't pay attention until I needed to reinstall. :P

hello, i have successfully re installed qp direct, but when i want to exit or reboot since quickplay, it freeazes an i have to forced turn off my laptop, it seems to qp does not create the hibernate file, or something, some suggestions, how to fix that.... sorry about my poor english

Note for anyone hoping to get Partition Magic working in Vista.

There is an alternative - Acronis Disk Director Suite v.10.0 Build 2.160 works fine!

Excellent! I'll have to nab a copy once I get home from work.

Note to all interested in installing Quickplay Direct using the instructions earlier in this thread: I willbe revising the instructions and reposting them today to account for some new information and possibly a few problems people have seen.

I have given up for now, as I keep getting the 5% error.
HP dv9008tx with a clean install of Ultimate.

Nothing seems to help.

Cheers, for the great advice on here!

to Toxico: I just got through following your instructions on getting QP Direct to work on Vista, and all i can say is: you're the MAN! (or WOMAN!)
Yes it worked; yes the XP logo brought a smile to my face; yes i'm enjoying a single-malt scotch in celebration (Laphroaig 10 Yr!); no, my anger at HP for directly advertising full Quickplay capability in their Vista-running laptops is not gone (but it is now on the backburner).
Anyway, Thank You! (and everyone else that pitched in)


One problem that you guys may or may not be able to help me with:
For some reason, in Quickplay Direct, it won't play some of my US-region DVDs. It asks if I want to change the code for my DVD-player (warning me that i can only do this 5 times), but even if i say yes it doesn't do anything and just spits out my DVD. At the same time i can play these DVDs without problem if i play it in Quickplay Windows.
What's the deal? Is there a way to install drivers (or whatever) into the X partition to solve this problem?

If you can help that'd be great!

Thanks again!