Patent ID: 7496744

Claim:
A method for express execution of multimedia playing for a computer multimedia system, in which a computer of the computer multimedia system comprises a central processing unit, a data storage, a system memory, a BIOS, at least one key, and at least one multimedia device, the data storage storing a first operating system, at least one multimedia device driver, and at least one multimedia device application program, the method comprising the steps of: (a) detecting the state of the hot key; (b) loading and executing a second operating system kernel program to the system memory from a high speed data storage connected to the central processing unit, by the computer when detecting the hot key being actuated; said loading and executing performed after completion of a basic system booting process of the second operating system; (c) loading and executing the multimedia device driver and the multimedia device application program associated with the actuated hot key from the data storage; and (d) activating the multimedia device associated with the actuated hot key.