can't play dvd on the notebook

my sister recently bought me a inspiron 700m. the notebook is for my school purposes.so i tried to play my dvd but could not it prompted me something like "dvd decoded not available". it tried to play in windows media player but could not so i'm not sure what the problem lies with. in my program there is no PowerDvd.
However they give me CD-roms software on reinstalling cyberlink powerdvd , reinstalling sonic mydvd and recordnow and reinstalling Dell Media Experience because they already installed in my comp.
But i noticed that in my All programs all this three programs are not there. so i'm not sure if it is installed or not.By the way i'm not so expert in comp.
Thanks, really hope of an answer.



dell inspiron 700m

 

All you'll need to do is install CyberLink PowerDVD (its the standard decoder for Dell). Once it is installed, you should be able to watch DVD's using either Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, Dell Media Experience or another player that you might like.

Hope this helps,


~SG~
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Inspiron 9300 || 1.73GHz || 60GB 7200rpm ||1gb DDR2||ATI Radeon X300 64MB || CD/DVD RW || XP Pro

 

I had the same problem man, and downloaded cyber link power dvd and it works like a dream. No other dvd players seem to work though it was making me mad....

Thx for who ever told me to use it...[ ]

6000D
Pentium M Processor 750 (1.86 GHz)
128MB x300 ATI
80 GB
512 DDR2
DVD Burner

 

thanx

dell inspiron 700m