Dell Media Direct - Playing CD/DVD's without booting? Am I wrong on this??

Dell Media Direct - Playing CD/DVD's without booting? Am I wrong on this??

XPS 1530, 3gb, T8300 processor, bought June 2008.



Not a big deal but I thought on this Dell laptop with MediaDirect you can insert a CD/DVD without fully booting to Windows Vista and play such..



But I think I may be wrong.



Can someone help me out?



Thanks

Peter

 

I don't know if the 1530 has it but yea it simply is a special partition with the media direct software and you just have to boot to that partition using the media direct button on the system.

 

Thanks so much. It is a button you push for Media Direct. BUT I just found out on Dell Support site (a miracle a solution is there) that if you have more than one Vista account or a password protected account, it will boot into Vista first.

Oh well-I need the security.
No big deal, just exploring the features of the new laptop

Hate the webcam though--slow FPS.

Thanks again
Peter

 

er.. no it won't. you sure you're looking at support for the right version of MediaDirect? There's still loads of support up for v2.0 but I'm assuming you have either 3.3 or 3.5. you can find out by looking at the restore cd that came with the system.

I have two accounts, one with a password, one without, and it still works just fine.

 

So you are saying you have Vista and 2 accounts (one with password) and you can press Media Direct button (left of power button) insert a CD/DVD and it will play?

Thanks
Peter

PS: My XPS was broken upon receipt-needed new LCD screen. Got it but they make it hard to install. Took tech 3.5 hours to install.

 

See this and scroll down

http://support.dell.com/support/top...5D776B2DC5763E030030ABD620CAD&c=us&l=en&s=gen

Written 6/2008 but refers to XP but prob affects Vista as well but not for you cause you have special Dell powers I do not have...

» Does MediaDirect Require Login?


Logging on is required when using MediaDirect if one or more of the conditions below are true.

More than one user account is set up on the computer.
The user account is set up to use a password.
MediaDirect does not bypass these settings. In this way, it helps maintain the security settings that are set up on the computer. If you do not need multiple user accounts on the computer or if you do not need a password for the user account, use the User Accounts item in the Control Panel. In User Accounts, you can remove the user account from the computer, or to remove the password from the user account.

For more information about how to remove a user account in Windows XP, see the following Dell Knowledge Base article: "Deleting User Accounts in Microsoft® Windows® XP?" Article ID: 148337

For more information about how to remove a password from a user account in Windows XP, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: "How to automatically log on to a user account in Windows XP" Article ID: 282866