You lot may come beyond the problem that your DVD won't play on Windows x when you insert your disc into the disc drive. The causes of this trouble tin be that your Windows ten does non accept a proper DVD playback software, or that something is wrong with your CD/DVD drive. If you are troubled by this problem, why non try the following tips that may be helpful?

Try these fixes

  • Fix ane: Install a third-party DVD player
  • Fix ii: Check your DVD drive

Gear up one: Install a third-party DVD thespian

Microsoft has removed the built-in support for video DVD playing in Windows 10. Therefore DVD playback is more troublesome on Windows 10 than on previous versions.

Microsoft has published a new DVD player to fill this vacancy. Simply it receives low rating due to some serious errors.

So we recommend y'all to use VLC thespian, a gratis third party player with DVD back up integrated.

Open VLC media player, click Media and select Open Disc. At present you can play the video on your DVD.

Bonus tip:

Nowadays, most laptops don't have a DVD drive. For easier access, backup and sharing, why non consider digitizing DVDs with WinX DVD Ripper?

WinX DVD Ripper is a versatile DVD ripping software that can non simply convert ISO image or DVD to MP4 (H.264/HEVC), AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, MPEG, MP3, etc, only also fill-in DVD to hard drive/USB/NAS/Plex. The ripped file tin can be viewed on computer, HDTV, Android, iPhone, iPad, Xbox 1 South, PS4, etc.

Set up 2: Check your DVD drive

Sometimes yous do accept a histrion supporting for DVD, but you nonetheless cannot play DVD on Windows 10. In this case, something may go wrong with your CD/DVD drive.

a) First, y'all should cheque your device status in Device Manager. To open up Device Manager, press Win + X keys and click Device Manager.

b) On the window of Device Manager, click DVD/CD-ROM drives to expand this category. If your CD/DVD drive is normal, it volition be shown as something like the image below shows.

c) But if your CD/DVD bulldoze shows up with a yellowish exclamation marker or a red 10 sign, you demand to reinstall or update your driver.

*To update driver, we recommend you to use Driver Like shooting fish in a barrel. Its free version tin can help you detect out and download the drivers that you need to update.

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Its Pro version is a much more powerful tool. It can assistance yous terminate the whole update procedure with only a unmarried click. And its functions can solve your driver problems easily and save you much time and effort.

d) If you lot cannot detect any device under the DVD/CD-ROM drives category, try the following (Alarm:The following steps will modify your registry, and we strongly recommend you to dorsum upwardly your registry earlier y'all continue.):

  • Open Control Prompt Every bit ADMINISTRATOR. (Opening registry editor requires Administrator Privileges.How to open Command Prompt every bit Administrator?)
  • Type (or copy and paste) the following and printing Enter: reg.exe add "HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesatapiController0" /f /five EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001
  • Reboot the computer.
  • Cheque the Device Director and see if the bulldoze appears.

If the methods above still don't work, yous may have a problematic cable connection or a defective bulldoze. Bank check the connectedness carefully or do some tests with other drives. You tin can also contact the device manufacturer if necessary.

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