Restore Zune 4.0’s missing features

September 17th, 2009 . Filed under: Tips. Tags: Registry, Zune

Microsoft has already announced the availablity of Zune HD & Zune 4.0, but some of the features are not available for users outside US and Canada. With the help of this registry hack, non-US/CA users will be able to enable these features:

Open regedit and navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Zune and create a key called FeaturesOverride. Within this key, create a DWORD for each feature you want to enable and set its value to 1.

A list of tweakables follow.

Quickplay
Marketplace
Picks
Videos
MusicVideos
Podcasts
Channels
Games
SubscriptionFreeTracks
SignInAvailable (allows restricted locales to sign in!)
FirstLaunchIntroVideo
MBRRental
MBRPurchase
MBRPreview

Alternatively, you can also apply this registry fix created by Rafael and apply it.

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