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How to get past region restrictions when playing DVDs in Windows Vista
Evening all ...
I have a friend who wants to play region 1 DVDs in her Windows Vista laptop. She knows nowt about finding and downloading software for the thing ... it's just got whatever basic Microsoft stuff it came with. And as you all know I'm a Mac bod so I'm not much use advising her.
Can someone recommend a good DVD player program for Vista that allows you to play any region? Or is there a way to globally bypass region settings in Vista itself?
Re: How to get past region restrictions when playing DVDs in Windows Vista
As far as I know the problem is that it's not usually Vista that controls the region coding, but the DVD drive itself - Windows only reads what it's been set at (and changes it if it's wrong)
Although you can change the code 5 times before it gets locked, the only way of bypassing it completely is usually with a DVD Decryptor like AnyDVD
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