Go into the 'Series' section. There you should see shows and movies that
will record when they show up in the guide. You can cancel the ones you
don't want.
"LittleWillow" <LittleWillow@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> OK this is a very strange issue I'm having. I have a fully patched copy of
> Vista 32Bit Home Premium SP1, a Hauppauge TV card and use Media Center to
> manage and record programs. I have been (annoyingly) finding that MC has
> been
> recording certain (not all) old programs that I have previously scheduled
> even though I have no longer got these listed. Some are series recordings,
> but others were one-off recordings.
>
> I have checked the schedules that are set up, and have ensured they are
> not
> set up there, but it is really rather annoying to come back and find a
> movie
> recorded for the 6th time despite having no visible schedule for it until
> it
> turns up in the program guide yet again...
>
> I will add that about 3 times I have shut down my PC and on restarting it,
> Vista has decided a whole series of drivers are missing and installed them
> (network, sound, and my TV card, among others, for no obvious reason -
> I've
> had this setup for over a year now) and every time this happens, I have to
> set up the tuner and program guide again within MC - and usually
> reschedule
> all of my series recordings. I would suspect it is related to this but all
> of
> the prior series schedules are still visible and simply need to be deleted
> and re-added - the problem ones are either one-offs that had recorded
> successfully previously or series' that I has previously cancelled so I am
> not sure where these are being stored.
>
> As the problem with the drivers above has resulted in problems being able
> to
> access the correct program guide data when the tuner is set up again, I
> have
> already recreated the xml document under
> C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\Recording and %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application
> Data\Microsoft\Ehome\Recording having stopped the relevant services and
> removed the files and the backups, but this didn't resolve the problem, so
> I
> have no idea what else to try.
>
> Any ideas where else Media Center might be getting this erroneous list of
> old TV programs would be gratefully appreciated.