Backup Your TV Series Recording Settings in Media Center

Pray the day doesn’t come that you need to reinstall Media Center on your PC but if it does happen check out this thread on The Green Button to learn how to backup and restore your TV series recording settings:

You can back up your series by saving recordings.xml and recordings.bak from

\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\Recordings\

You need to be able view hidden files and folders. To do this, do the following: From a file folder, select Tools, and then "Folder Options" . Select the "View" tab, and select "Show hidden files and folders". You may also need to uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" although I'm not positive about that one.

1. I closed the MCE interface.
2. This time, I shut down the Media Center Receiver Service and the Media Center Scheduler Service.
3. I copied in my original backed-up Recordings folder (after making a backup of the current one - just in case...) into c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\
4. Restarted.