Help !! XP Home administrator priviledge problem

[Guest AlanT]

Hi. I wanted to read a region 1 dvd and had 2 changes left on my dvd region

changing option dialog. One to change, one to change back I thought.

Unfortunately when I went to change back, possibly because it was the last

one, it said I needed administrator priviledges. Checking the user accounts I

already had that. Nevertheless I booted into safe mode and selected an

administrator account that wasn't there on normal boot up. But it still gave

me the same error and wouldn't let me change it. I'm now stuck with a region

1 dvd drive ! Please help !!

[Guest Xandros]

Re: Help !! XP Home administrator priviledge problem

 

This isn't about administrative privileges, it's about having exceeded the

number of times you can reset the region code on your drive. You may need to

find a firmware patch for your particular DVD drive.

 

--

 

Xandros

 

 

"AlanT" <AlanT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:64B7400A-D27A-4D4D-BD70-B3B2C1177BAD@microsoft.com...

> Hi. I wanted to read a region 1 dvd and had 2 changes left on my dvd

> region

> changing option dialog. One to change, one to change back I thought.

> Unfortunately when I went to change back, possibly because it was the last

> one, it said I needed administrator priviledges. Checking the user

> accounts I

> already had that. Nevertheless I booted into safe mode and selected an

> administrator account that wasn't there on normal boot up. But it still

> gave

> me the same error and wouldn't let me change it. I'm now stuck with a

> region

> 1 dvd drive ! Please help !!

[Guest AlanT]

Re: Help !! XP Home administrator priviledge problem

 

 

But it says I have one change left !

 

"Xandros" wrote:

> This isn't about administrative privileges, it's about having exceeded the

> number of times you can reset the region code on your drive. You may need to

> find a firmware patch for your particular DVD drive.

>

> --

>

> Xandros

>

>

> "AlanT" <AlanT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:64B7400A-D27A-4D4D-BD70-B3B2C1177BAD@microsoft.com...

> > Hi. I wanted to read a region 1 dvd and had 2 changes left on my dvd

> > region

> > changing option dialog. One to change, one to change back I thought.

> > Unfortunately when I went to change back, possibly because it was the last

> > one, it said I needed administrator priviledges. Checking the user

> > accounts I

> > already had that. Nevertheless I booted into safe mode and selected an

> > administrator account that wasn't there on normal boot up. But it still

> > gave

> > me the same error and wouldn't let me change it. I'm now stuck with a

> > region

> > 1 dvd drive ! Please help !!

>

>

>

[Guest Patrick Keenan]

Re: Help !! XP Home administrator priviledge problem

 

"AlanT" <AlanT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>

> But it says I have one change left !

 

It may be wrong, misreporting the number of changes. Try attaching it to

an XP Pro system.

 

HTH

-pk

 

>

> "Xandros" wrote:

>

>> This isn't about administrative privileges, it's about having exceeded

>> the

>> number of times you can reset the region code on your drive. You may need

>> to

>> find a firmware patch for your particular DVD drive.

>>

>> --

>>

>> Xandros

>>

>>

>> "AlanT" <AlanT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:64B7400A-D27A-4D4D-BD70-B3B2C1177BAD@microsoft.com...

>> > Hi. I wanted to read a region 1 dvd and had 2 changes left on my dvd

>> > region

>> > changing option dialog. One to change, one to change back I thought.

>> > Unfortunately when I went to change back, possibly because it was the

>> > last

>> > one, it said I needed administrator priviledges. Checking the user

>> > accounts I

>> > already had that. Nevertheless I booted into safe mode and selected an

>> > administrator account that wasn't there on normal boot up. But it still

>> > gave

>> > me the same error and wouldn't let me change it. I'm now stuck with a

>> > region

>> > 1 dvd drive ! Please help !!

>>

>>

>>

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: Help !! XP Home administrator priviledge problem

 

 

"AlanT" <AlanT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:64B7400A-D27A-4D4D-BD70-B3B2C1177BAD@microsoft.com...

> Hi. I wanted to read a region 1 dvd and had 2 changes left on my dvd

> region

> changing option dialog. One to change, one to change back I thought.

> Unfortunately when I went to change back, possibly because it was the last

> one, it said I needed administrator priviledges. Checking the user

> accounts I

> already had that. Nevertheless I booted into safe mode and selected an

> administrator account that wasn't there on normal boot up. But it still

> gave

> me the same error and wouldn't let me change it. I'm now stuck with a

> region

> 1 dvd drive ! Please help !!

 

Install AnyDVD

 

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

 

Then you will be able to play any DVD without resetting anything.