DVD/cd rom

My children have been watching their movies on the computer, which are the
normal dvd's, but today they tried to watch one and it came up
with"stop'playback for this region is declined.
I can't change the region cause it won't let me, the dvd's say region 4 and
my computer is at region 1. Is their any ideas on what to do to rectify
this?Thankyou

Your DVD Drive will only allow for 5 region code changes. You are then locked on
the last region zone.

BTW - this is a Windows Update Newsgroup.

In Device Manager, select Properties of the DVD Drive and you'll see "DVD
Region" tab.

Quote - CAUTION - You can change the region a limited number of times. After
Changes remaining reaches zero, you cannot change the region even if you
reinstall Windows or move your DVD drive to a different computer.

Not obvious but that's it. You'll need a new DVD drive.

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"Rach71" <> wrote in message
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| My children have been watching their movies on the computer, which are the
| normal dvd's, but today they tried to watch one and it came up
| with"stop'playback for this region is declined.
| I can't change the region cause it won't let me, the dvd's say region 4 and
| my computer is at region 1. Is their any ideas on what to do to rectify
| this?Thankyou