I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1720. Last night I was fiddling about with DVDs and was delighted to find all regions played. This morning I tried it again and Windows Media Player insisted my DVD player was set to region 8 and refused to play anything. A check of the device manager showed the drive had gone from “no region specified” to “region 2” — and that there were only three region changes left of the five it came with. It’s a WMP problem, and is apparently another Vista blunder. Way to go Microsoft.
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Go back to XP! Vista sucks…
Or get a MacBook pro?
Stupid effing Dell didn’t give me the stupid effing XP disc with my last laptop! I’ve circumnavigated the problem by using another playback programme.
You can use anyone’s Dell XP disc if you wish..
I’ll have to take my chances in Abu Dhabi…