Playing European DVDs on a North American computer

Hello,
I am a Canadian who is in Belgium for the year studying, and as always I have my trusty computer in tow. It is a Toshiba Satellite and has no trouble playing North American DVDs, but won't recognize the ones from Europe. I was wondering whether there is there some software I need to get, or whether I'll have to buy an external DVD player in order to use my computer to play European DVDs?
I'd welcome the advice of anyone who knows about this.
Thanks very much.

Hi Anna,
To change the region on your DVD-ROM :-
1. Click on MY COMPUTER
2. Right click on your DVD drive
3. Click on PROPERTIES
4. Click on the HARDWARE tab.
5. Highlight your DVD drive and click on PROPERTIES
6. Click on the DVD REGION tab.
7. Select your current country or manually enter the region that you want (region 2).
As Flo rightly says you only have a limited number of changes before the selected region is made permanent.
regards,

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