"djscissorhands" wrote in message
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Hello, I can't play dvd's on my laptop running windows xp pro sp3 with
windows media player 11. when I try to play the dvd it tells me that i
do not have the proper codec. So I installed PowerDVD 7.0. Now I can
play my dvds with PowerDVD 7.0 just fine but not in wmp. Every time I
insert a dvd the PowerDVD program immediately opens. How can I play dvds
with WMP?

my friends laptop running xp pro sp3 i just pop in the dvd and a menu
comes up asking if I want to play with windows media player, power dvd,
real player, quick time etc. so I choose wmp and the dvd plays just
fine.

Please help me be able to play dvds on windows media player...



Double-click "My Computer"
RIGHT click the drive that you use to play DVD's
From the sub-menu, Select "Properties" for that drive.
In the following dialog select the "AutoPlay" tab.
Then In the drop down for content type select "DVD movie"
Then under "Actions" you have your options:

On your friends laptop he will have selected:
"Prompt me each time to chose an action"
If you want the same, then select and click "Apply" button.

If you want so as WMP always plays DVD's by default,
Select: "Select an action to perform"
Scroll down and click to highlight "Play DVD using WMP"
Then click the apply button
close all windows and load a DVD and test it.