Can not play my UK DVDs on my US bought Satellitte L875-S7108

Hi, this may be a stupid question but I can not play any of my UK bought DVDs on my US purchased Satellitte L875-S7108 laptop. The user manual say's the following "TECHNICAL NOTE: Your optical disc drive is set to play region 1 (North America) DVD-ROMs. If you play a DVD disc from another region, the drive will automatically change to play in the format of the other region."
This does not happen, all I get is the following message "The disc is of a different region. Can not play back" and that is it.
What can I do to get it to play a different region? Thanks

Hello both, thank you for your advice. Going on your suggestion I went into properties of the disk drive and I was able to change the region setting to Region 2 (UK) and popped a DVD in to try it, but then got another error message:
"Toshiba Video Player has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available".
Then there are two button choices "Debug" or "Close program". Which ever one I chose it closes the program down. I suppose I just have to wait for Windows to notify me of a solution??
Regards Stacey

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