Comments on: Restore Zune 4.0’s “missing” features

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:33:00 +0000

If you can’t follow this, try this website:
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-hidden-features-music-podcasts-smart-dj-and-social-in-zune-software/

By: Alok Sharma

Alok Sharma — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:48:00 +0000

could someone plz explain how to do this in a bit more detail? :-/

plz…

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Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:22:30 +0000

[...] in Australia and I had the same annoying issue. I just did this: Within Windows | Restore Zune 4.0’s “missing” features In the comments there is mention of what to do in the latest 4.2 release. __________________ [...]

By: Murilo

Murilo — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:52:49 +0000

Thx for the tip!!!!!!

By: JPS HP Enterprise Services Argentina

JPS HP Enterprise Services Argentina — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:47:20 +0000

UPDATE FOR ZUNE 4.2!!!!
Add this to REG:

“MBRPreview”=dword:00000001
“QuickMixLocal”=dword:00000001
“QuickMixZmp”=dword:00000001
“Social”=dword:00000001

Saludos desde Argentina!!!

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:53:34 +0000

Thanks to EwanD (see post ’01-28-2010, 8:03 PM’) in http://forums.zune.net/0/2/574548/ShowPost.aspx#574548

SmartDJ can be enabled similarly by adding the 32bit DWORD ‘QuickMixLocal’ and setting it to 1.

Rafael could you also add this to the registry file?

By: Fhernando

Fhernando — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:02:48 +0000

Nooooo not works anymore for smartDj (the registry script) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Fhernando

Fhernando — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:57:47 +0000

That´s amazing!!!!!!!! I love Zune and Zune software, here in Mexico a lot of friend see it in my Pc and they useit whitout zune player, it´s great thank u for this

By: Aditives

Aditives — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:33:14 +0000

Worked for me in 4.2 just fine, enabled login for non-us acocunt aswell :)

By: Big Lou

Big Lou — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:51:07 +0000

Thankz homie!!!!!!!!! You da man

By: Veer

Veer — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:36:42 +0000

Something weird came up….. the Registry hack made available here is no longer working with Zune 4.2. It was working but now its doing nothing at all.

The only clear solution is to change the region settings to USA, but that means all dictionaries and other programs like Word will make their default dictionaries USA.

Rafael…. HELP!!!!

By: Kruller

Kruller — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:44:04 +0000

Yep, I’m fron France and i’m just like Veer: since the last update the smart dj feature is disabled. Would you find the registry key to unlock it? please? :)

By: Veer

Veer — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:23:43 +0000

Hey, i’m from Trinidad in the Caribbean and I saw that the SmartDJ feature is gone. How do i re enable that feature?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:14:06 +0000

I am a us soldier deployed in Iraq and I was sent a Zune HD for Christmas but can’t use it. My problem is when I try to sign on with the desktop application It says “can’t sign in due to temporary server error, please try again later”. Now what I don’t understand is I have everything set up through the US, my windows live id is set to us locale, my credit card it set up in the us, my desktop settings are pacific standard time, and I have even tried running a vpn to us servers. If anyone could help I would very much appreciate it.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:24:43 +0000

Good job! I was pretty PO’d when I couldn’t log in anymore. I live in Spain now. I am curious though, since I applied the 4.0 “upgrade” I no longer can view anything on my TV through the AV dock. I get music, but no picture. Does this have anything to do with the update? I have a zune 30 so I do have the option of using PAL instead of NTSC. I’ve tried everything I can think of. Thanks again,

Rodney

By: Raymond Dowe

Raymond Dowe — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:46:31 +0000

You are awesome! I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to find a way to make this happen.

Thanks man.

By: Jesse McGuay

Jesse McGuay — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:40:11 +0000

One question. I’m in the US so I realize I don’t need to do the registry edit but I noticed one key
“SubscriptionFreeTracks”
How does one access this feature in the US? I get fustraited trying to find stuff sometimes in the Market place, especially free video’s and it almost looks like this key would give me an option to find the free stuff easier.

By: Danger

Danger — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:18:14 +0000

Awesome, did not know there was that much options missing in my Zune software.
BTW MS is no longer selling Zunes in Canada anymore… jackasses. Was looking forward
to the Zune HD. Oh well there’s always eBay.

By: jimmy b

jimmy b — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:15:56 +0000

amazing, thanks, even though i’m in canada, for some reason i was still blocked from the marketplace, thanks a ton for the reg entry, worked perfectly!!!!

By: jakies evans

jakies evans — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:31:06 +0000

im very happy wiht my life

By: Oren

Oren — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:16:28 +0000

Thanks, Rafael, very nice but will this allow me to buy or rent videos outside of the US? Does it override the IP filtering on the server side?

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:04:26 +0000

As stated above, You’re my hero too Rafael!! I’ve moved to Japan and missed a lot of the features I had back in the States. (T-T)
Now they are back. I’m going to import a ZuneHD for sure now!!

…It’s funny how my Zune has the frequency change for Japan, but they don’t sell it here. (-.-;;

By: ellianth

ellianth — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:12:04 +0000

You’re my new hero! Thank you so much for this. Now I can finally view the marketplace (and some other features) again.

By: cro

cro — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:08:47 +0000

Just to clear out things, in Canada we can buy a Zune, but we don’t have access to the marketplace. The hack is usefull for Canadian too !

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:22:12 +0000

I don’t recall it being any different than in any other Windows since 3.1. Run regedit (or regedt32) and open the HKEY_CURRENT_USER tree.