Satellite A100-049 with Vista - Win DVD will not play?

Just bought the above. All seems fine so far (but only had it 2 days) apart from when I try to play a region 2 dvd in the drive. I select WinDVD 8 and it gives the option to open from drive of folder. I select "f" being the drive and the disc spins up. No picture or sound though. The initial screen just stays on. (They will play in media centre so drive seems fine)
Cannot see any setting to change and the drive is set to region 2. Looking in the "getting started" it does say that for the final version of vista it "may" be necessary to download a patch but I cannot find one.
Any help appreciated

Hi
Do you try to play the original DVDs?
If your DVD drive was set to another region its possible that you will be not able to play such DVDs.
You can change the region code in the drive properties. But be careful; you can change it only 4 or 5 times (cannot remember)
But if you can play the movies with MCE so I dont think that you need to change the drive region code.
Did you try to install some codex? If not try it!!

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