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PSA: Once this rolls out into the actual downloadable Windows builds, everyone should be able to do this by reinstalling Windows.

###European Economic Area PCs

As noted above, some functionality is only available in the EEA. Windows uses the region chosen by the customer during device setup to identify if the PC is in the EEA. Once chosen in device setup, the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by resetting the PC.

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DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm…

Can we get THIS fucking comment on the front page please? Outstanding work, friend! Sincere thanks!

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deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d worry about how that might effect other things. Windows isn’t the only thing that changes it’s behavior based on region.

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- masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s the real gift given by Microsoft:
  
  Once chosen in device setup, the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by resetting the PC.
  
  Just change your region back to where ever you are after setup. Nothing on your PC outside of the OS will be reading the region set during Windows Install, they’ll be asking for the currently set region.
  
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  - deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe I’m misreading what you quoted but it seems to suggest you can’t do what you’re suggesting.
    
    Onc that region is set, it’s locked in unless you do a reset of the PC…which would presumably go through the windows set up again and ask for region.
    
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    masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You can always change your region in settings though, and Microsoft is not removing that ability as that would cause much much bigger problems. But their DMA checking only cares about the region selected at set up, whereas everything happening at runtime only ever gets the current region as the set up region has never been available before.
    
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- orclev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hmm, if it doesn’t honor that setting being changed after the initial install it could be possible to set it during install to get the benefits, then change it post install to make other apps behave normally.
  
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