Loading ...HP have failed miserably with its QuickPlay entertainment suite integrated in all HP Pavilion models. Do as I have and just dump it.
HP QuickPlay from Pavilion with Vista
Don’t slam HP too quick though, you may be reinstalling QuickPlay sooner that you think… the concept behind QuickPlay allows consumers to use their laptop in alternate “modes”, to play music CDs, DVD movies, and MP3s stored on the hard drive in a separate Linux partition without booting to the main operating system.
It’s a handy feature from HP and has been working merrily until Windows Vista was released and presented new compatibility issues, which unfortunately does not provide users with instant access to the software. Which brings us to why I’ve removed QuickPlay from Vista, if you have to be logged in to use QuickPlay you might as well run Windows Media Center which is optimised for Vista. Other reasons to ditch QuickPlay in Vista is it’s slow, takes up to 10 seconds to shutdown the session and eats a small village of system resources!
Remove HP QuickPlay from Vista by doing the following…
- From the Start menu, click on Run
- Type “msconfig” to open the Windows System Configuration
- Swap to the Startup tab
- Uncheck “HP QuickPlay” and “HP Quick launch buttons” from the list of applications that run at Windows Startup.
- Press OK and restart your computer
I hope HP respond to this criticism and release a better product for HP Pavilion consumers.
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