HP QuickPlay on Windows Vista & Windows XP

Updated on November 3, 2008

Originally Posted in HP, Quickplay & Windows Vista on March 28th, 2007, reposted as a page due to popularity. The QuickPlay download is available on http://www.asifism.com/downloader.

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Download Information for HP QuickPlay Direct & HP QuickPlay for Windows
Here’s what you need to do to download HP Quick play. I post keys to the download site http://www.asifism.com/downloader on the home page, http://www.asifism.com.  An easier way to get to the keys is to browse the the hp quickplay category on http://www.asifism.com/category/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/.  The latest post here should have the keys you need to download QuickPlay.   Browse over to the home page and look for the latest key for whichever version of quickplay you’re looking to download.Here are the installation instructions:

What is HP QuickPlay?

HP QuickPlay is a software that comes bundled with most Hewlett Packard & some Compaq Laptops/Notebooks. Ultimately, it’s HPs answer to Windows Media Player in conjunction with CyberLink. The software comes in two versions, direct & windows. You can find more information on the difference between the two versions on the post hp QuickPlay (QPW) Vs. QuickPlay Direct (QPD or HPQPDP). Furthermore, please note that HP QuickPlay Direct 2.3 is no more shipped with HP notebooks. HP claims the software has bugs and issues, and has, therefore, discontinued work on the software. QuickPlay for Windows is, however, still available and is being upgraded, with 3.6 being the latest version. QuickPlay versions 2.3 Direct, 2.3, 3.0, 3.3, and 3.6 are available for download on this site.

You can install QuickPlay Direct (QPD) 2.3 IRRESPECTIVE of what Windows Version (XP or Vista) you use. QPD will be installed on a separate partition with an automated Windows XP installation. QuickPlay for Windows 2.3 is ONLY Windows XP Compatible, and has reportedly had problems with Windows Vista.

All QuickPlay for Windows versions 3.0 & up are Windows Vista compatible only.

Please post any questions, concerns, or comments regarding QuickPlay on the latest download keys post on http://www.asifism.com.

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I’ve finally done it. After waiting a few weeks for the recovery CDs as directed by HP, which turned out to be absolutely useless, I scouted the web some more, found out how to install Quickplay on Vista without signing up for the HP Express Upgrade, which is a tedious process and basically gets you a Vista recovery CD specific to your PC model. Now, the orignal instructions that follow are from here: http://www.notebookforums.com/post2542025.html. Credit goes to this guy. Also, Please note the following:

- HP QuickPlay Direct 2.3, whether you install it on a Windows XP notebook or Windows Vista Notebook, will create a separate Windows Xp installation on your drive. So, ultimately, HP QuickPlay Direct 2.3 is Windows XP compatibale ONLY, but it CAN be installed on a Windows Vista Machine too.

- All versions of QuickPlay for Windows after 3.0 are Windows Vista Compatible ONLY.

Here are the instructions for installing QuickPlay Direct 2.3 on your Hewlett Packard PC / laptop:

1. Back up your system in case of catastrophic failure (always a good first step when jacking around with partitions).

2. Download HPQPDP.rar or HPQPDP.zip from http://downloads.asifism.com, using the latest keys on http://www.asifism.com. You may have to look for the latest download key post in the HP QuickPlay category on the blog.

3. Extract whichever you downloaded and drop the resulting HPQPDP folder into your :\SwSetup\ folder (mostly for safekeeping purposes).

4. Using PartitionMagic Pro or Disk Management in Windows something else to either shrink your main partition, secondary partition, or whatever. You want to end up with a 1027.6 MB (or 1028 MB) UNALLOCATED area of space at the END of the drive. Go through all the reboots the machine will likely want to make this happen. It can’t hurt to verify that the unallocated space is there and unallocated after all this. (NOTE: If Partition Magic keeps giving errors saying “Selected disk contains one or more Partitions which cannot be moved,” you have a recovery partition that prevents it from doing what you need it to or drive information has changed. You may have to find another way of resizing your partitions or a reboot might solve the problem.)

5. After creating the unallocated space, assign it the drive letter X: but DO NOT FORMAT IT.

6. Hie thee to the HPQPDP folder and run setup.exe.

7. Wait.

8. Wait some more.

9. Reboot and keep on waiting.

10. Shut down the laptop and hit the Quickplay button. You WILL most likely see a Windows logo, since QP2.3 is Windows-based whereas QP1.x is Linux-based.

11. Enjoy a celebratory glass of single-malt scotch, and pop in or browse to your favorite flick. This step is optional if you are at work and/or not legal drinking age.

MANY thanks to everyone for their input. For the above files, thanks to modemboy for providing the .rars and to AmigaDude for the valid data2.cab and data3.cab files. Also, thanks to Ericko for the QPv1 image (found at http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=QVE3S9PU) in case someone’s machine cannot run QP 2.x, and to everyone else that pitched in.

[Disclaimer: the 1.x image may not work in all machines. It looks like it was taken from a disc that shipped with a dv4000 CTO; YMMV. See the following article if you need 1.x:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g…reg_R1002_USEN

If you need QP 1.x and you created your recovery discs you have another option for restoring QP; it is listed in this article.]

This message was typed in anticipation while QP was installing.

[Edit: linusl also provides a more complex way of getting QP2.x to work under different circumstances if your QP partition is still intact - see page 42 of this thread.]

[Edit number 2: Changed slightly since files have been re-uploaded.]

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Getting the Authorized or Enabled Machine Error? Try this:

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file after you’ved saved it and install QuickPlay.

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To Install QuickPlay for Windows, here’s what you do:

Extract the appropriate version of the downloaded QuickPlay file from http://downloads.asifism.com into in c:\swsetup and install quickplay from that folder. This is the actual Quickplay for Windows installation, and only after this will quickplay for windows work. . If you want Quickplay 3.0, download it from the provided link and use the setup file in that download rather than the one in the QPW folder. Enjoy, NO thanks to HP!