No "play dvd" icon in media center


  1. dbois29
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    No "play dvd" icon in media center


    I have an HP laptop that i did a windows 7 upgrade on. It was a vista machine. So after doing the upgrade, my media center does not have a paly dvd icon and will not see any of my movies in my movies library. I have uninstalled media center and reinstalled it to have the same issue. I have been on hp chat session for hours trying to fix this, but they are stumped and have had me restore the system several times. I did a clean install of win7 and that works just fine, but if I do a clean install, I lose all the preinstalled software and no longer have a dvd burning software suite. I am at the point at which I will buy a dvd burning software suite and just do a clean install of win7. Anyone have any ideas?
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  3. mikinho
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    6x W2K8 R2 (x64), 6x W7 7600 (x64), 2x Gentoo (x64), 1x Ubuntu 9.04 (x64), 1x pfSense (FreeBSD)
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    HP will typically disable the DVD functionality in favor of their own software.

    Just import the following registry key to have it shown again.

    http://mikinho.com/wmc/fix/show-dvd.reg
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