HELP - DVD viewing disabled at work

[tom1000000]

Hi,


At work the bastards have some how stopped all DVD players from working.


If I run dxdiag and go to "Display" it shows the following 3 disabled with the "Enable" button disabled:

DirectDraw Acceleration
Direct3d Acceleration
AGP Texture Acceleration

How can I reenable these options?

I have tried reinstalling the video drivers and upgrading Directx, but it hasn't helped.

Also on the weekend I tried installing a PCI graphics card and setting it as my primary display in the BIOS.

The first time Windows booted the card worked fine and I could watch videos. Then I rebooted and something strange happened - the PCI card was limited to 4 BIT color!

It seems there has been some hacks done to Windows to disable DirectDraw on the main video card, and to prevent other video cards from multiple use.

Can anyone help??????


PS I have admin priviledges to the machine

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[CalvinHobbs]

look for registry tweaks

 

[ribbon13]

http://www.theeldergeek.com/enable_disable_dvd_player.htm

 

[corkyg]

It's worth a shot - but if you fix it, don't be upset of some Donald Trump-type comes up in points three fingers at you saying, "You're fired."

 

[bigpow]

Originally posted by: corkyg
It's worth a shot - but if you fix it, don't be upset of some Donald Trump-type comes up in points three fingers at you saying, "You're fired."

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: corkyg
It's worth a shot - but if you fix it, don't be upset of some Donald Trump-type comes up in points three fingers at you saying, "You're fired."

And with minimal stand alone players under $199, is it worth it? If they did a custom GPO adm (don't remember this one in the regular GPO list and the reg error is not a standard one for policies), it would reset with every GPO update.

Shoot, they may have discovered that they had an unlicensed player/codec on the set and are trying to CYA. So, yeah, what corkyg said.

 

[ribbon13]

Media player classic on a jumpstick. No registry editing can stop that from working.
=D

 

[LTC8K6]

What happens when you look at hardware acceleration under display properties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot?