Region with Vista Home DVD code problem

I have a sony vaio cr290 bought in the United States. I would like to change the dvd region code HT now moved it to the India. its asks me to insert the media to change the region code, I hv tried 4 left. Help, please. I have no Vista support since the laptop is with Vista Home installed. The DVD recorder using pioneer dvd - rw dvr - k17 ata device.

Hello

Check with the system manufacturer and the manufacturer of the drive because there may be limits in place
to avoid changes.

Have you checked control panel - Device Manager - CD/DVD - double click on the drive.
DVD region? Be sure to be logged on as ADMINISTRATOR

Have you tried to connect as ADMINISTRATOR mode without failure?

You have any CD/DVD programs running at startup that might be locking the
by car?

How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135
How to check and change Vista startup programs
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/79612-startup-programs-enable-disable.html

Autoruns - free - see what programs are configured so that it starts automatically when
your system boots and you connect. Autoruns also shows you the complete list of the registry
and where applications can configure Auto-start for the files settings.
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

--------------------------------

DVD region information
http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/smallbusinessserver/threads

DVD region code
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

You can buy devices that claim to be region free and software that claims to be able to
other regions to read even if I have no experience with those.

Region Free DVD Player Information
http://www.dvdbuyingguide.com/codefreedvd/Codefree-FAQ.html

Region Free & Code free DVD player information
http://www.dvdbuyingguide.com/codefreedvd/bigfaq.html

Forums - a lot of expert real help
http://Club.myce.com/

I hope this helps.

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