Satellite 2410 unlocking DVD region?

Hi a friend of mine has a Toshiba Satellite 2410 and a Mat****a DVD-RW combo drive. Unfortunately the drive is locked to region 1 and he needs region 2 but Windows wont allow any more changes. Is there any official or unofficial way to fix or force this drive to play region 2 DVDs??
cheers,
Richard S.

Hi
Well, as far as I know on the official way you can change the region settings 5 times.
Furthermore you can check some other topics in the forum.
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5511&messageID=18805#18805
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