Ok. I'm seriously p----d off.
Had this brand new £1400 Sony Desktop PC thingy with Blue Ray drive included for a few months now. Fine. When I bought it, I watched a few Blu Ray DVDs on it that I didn't know were "region free." They included, in fact, one that Sony sent me...The dire "Spiderman 3."
The problem it has since caused is that my WinDVD programme has now set itself to be "Region B only." So, when I go out and buy a European Region DVD, it won't play the damn thing.
Now, I have been onto the internet and searched the forums and one person actually claims to have found the way to sort this problem. He talks about the need to do the following in order to sort it out and basically remove this region s--t from the PC...
1) Download a program called "Autoruns" from www.sysinternals.com.
2) Run autoruns.exe, go to "Drivers" tab and disable driver called "regi" (regi.sys). Just untick the checkbox next to it. Note: Do not delete it.
3) Restart Windows.
4) Delete file "ivireg.ivr" in "C:\Windows\System32\" folder.
5) Re-enable "regi" driver using Autoruns (tick the checkbox).
6) Restart Windows.File "ivireg.ivr" will be recreated with default settings and you can change BD region from WinDVD interface 5 more times before you have to repeat this procedure. Enjoy!
P.S.: If you have a dual boot system (say, XP and Vista), you can just boot to another OS and delete "ivireg.ivr" from there.
Alas, however, this man's efforts don't work. Why? Because when you get to stage 4, you discover that the "ivireg.ivr" file does not even bloody exist on the PC.
It's doing my head in to be frank. Am I now stuck with a Blu Ray drive set to Region A? It's soooo stupid. Does anyone out there know a way to sort this?
Thanks.
