Computer question/PC nostalgia

[Phil]

Oh. Gotcha. Nevermind.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I spent several hours on the phone with my ISP, and then by myself, trying to configure Outlook for one of my email accounts. (It was working perfectly with the old hard drive.) Tried every configuration of this and that, googled dozens of sites. I finally solved it. Turns out for user name you have to put in your full email address -

happy.gorgonzola@romney.com rather than just happy.gorgonzola. Of course, following the instructions of ISP's tech person, I had typed in just happy.gorgonzola.

Hopefully this will help youse in the future.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Now I have to figure out why my CD/DVD drive is telling me I can't play a video from Region 1. My drive should be Region 1 too (they have to match), I would think. But there's no way to find out what Region your drive is without downloading another program. Why can't they tell you what Region you are in??

[Andy]

Hi.

If you right click on your drive, then click on properties. In the new window, navigate to the hardware tab. Select the drive you're trying to use, then click on properties. There should be a tab which tells you the current region your drive is set to.

You can change it but only a set number of times (mine is limited to four).

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Hi Andy, thank you!

I actually figured this out yesterday, from ehow, believe it or not. I normally find ehow totally useless, but it was the only site I saw that explained it. I was trying to watch a video from Region 1, and my player told me the regions didn't match. Which was because my player hadn't been set to a specific region (but needed to be, as it is not one of those region-free players, which they don't make anymore).

Unbelievable, the power of the movie industry to tell us we can only reset our DVD players 4-5 times. Because people never, ever buy movies in other regions, like when they are on vacation, and want to watch them back in their native country.

[Andy]

Good to know it's fixed

Yeah the restriction is completely ridiculous. It's bad enough that you don't really own the software you buy, but to extend it to hardware, well that's just rude.