Patent ID: 8345011

Claim:
A method for express execution of multimedia playing for a computer system, the computer system having a data storage, a system memory, a BIOS, an operating system, a plurality of hot keys, and a plurality of multimedia players, the data storage storing an operating system, a plurality of multimedia player drivers, and a plurality of multimedia player application programs, the method comprising the steps of: storing a signal device activation group table in the data device storage, the device activation group table associating each hot key with the associated multimedia player, driver, and application program, wherein each hot key is associated with a single separate multimedia player in the device activation table; in a state before the BIOS and the operating system are loaded and executed, detecting whether any one of the hot key is depressed; when detecting that one of the hot keys is depressed, the computer system executing a system activation process including loading and executing the BIOS, and loading and executing the same operating system of the computer system irrespective of which one of the hot key is depressed; after executing the system activation process, the computer system loading the device activation group table from the data storage into the system memory, and loading and executing the multimedia player driver associated with the depressed hot key according to the definition established in the device activation group table; loading and executing the multimedia player application program associated with the depressed hot key according to the definition established in the device activation group table; and activating the multimedia player associated with the depressed hot key, while leaving other multimedia players inactivated.