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Changing DVD region settings, Start, My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager

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Changing DVD region settings Most DVDs that contain copyrighted files also contain region codes. The region codes help protect copyrights internationally. You can play a DVD containing a region code only if the region code on the DVD matches the region setting on your DVD drive. CAUTION: The region settings on your DVD drive can be changed only 5 times. The region setting you select the fifth time becomes the permanent region setting on the DVD drive. The number of region changes remaining is displayed on the DVD Region tab. To change settings through the operating system: 1. Select Start > My Computer. 2. Right-click in the window and select Properties > Hardware tab > Device Manager. 3. Click the "+" sign next to DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click the DVD drive for which you want to change region settings, and then click Properties. 4. Make the desired changes on the DVD Region tab. 5. Click OK. 18 Chapter 6 Using an optical drive

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Changing DVD region settings
Most DVDs that contain copyrighted files also contain region codes. The region codes help protect
copyrights internationally.
You can play a DVD containing a region code only if the region code on the DVD matches the region
setting on your DVD drive.
CAUTION:
The region settings on your DVD drive can be changed only 5 times.
The region setting you select the fifth time becomes the permanent region setting on the DVD drive.
The number of region changes remaining is displayed on the DVD Region tab.
To change settings through the operating system:
1.
Select
Start
>
My Computer
.
2.
Right-click in the window and select
Properties
>
Hardware
tab
>
Device Manager
.
3.
Click the "+" sign next to
DVD/CD-ROM drives
, right-click the DVD drive for which you want to
change region settings, and then click
Properties
.
4.
Make the desired changes on the
DVD Region
tab.
5.
Click
OK
.
18
Chapter 6
Using an optical drive