Media Center Woes

[Anth]

I'm based in the UK and using a DVB-S card in conjunction with Windows7
Media Center Home Premium, I want to completely remove all of the existing
channels and reset everything back to how it was, however I can't seem to
find any option for doing this, as even going through the whole procedure of
a full rescan doesn't put WMC back into its original default condition.
I also have a DVB-T card installed in my PC as well and the problem with
that is that Windows continuously wants to be buggering around with the
existing channel configuration by automatically adding any new channels that
it finds (ditto with satellite, that's why I want to start again from
scratch) this has now become a real pain, as my part of the country is in
the middle of analogue shutdown and some transmitters are swapping
multiplexes and upping their existing digital output power by as much as ten
times, this means that there are now lots of extra duplicated and different
regional programmes arriving from various sources, which I don't want, I'd
like it to 'ask' first and give 'me' the option of installing any newly
found channels, any advice about how I can reconfigure WMC to eliminate the
above annoyances would be most welcome. TIA

 

[Dave-UK]

I'm based in the UK and using a DVB-S card in conjunction with Windows7
Media Center Home Premium, I want to completely remove all of the existing
channels and reset everything back to how it was, however I can't seem to
find any option for doing this, as even going through the whole procedure of
a full rescan doesn't put WMC back into its original default condition.
I also have a DVB-T card installed in my PC as well and the problem with
that is that Windows continuously wants to be buggering around with the
existing channel configuration by automatically adding any new channels that
it finds (ditto with satellite, that's why I want to start again from
scratch) this has now become a real pain, as my part of the country is in
the middle of analogue shutdown and some transmitters are swapping
multiplexes and upping their existing digital output power by as much as ten
times, this means that there are now lots of extra duplicated and different
regional programmes arriving from various sources, which I don't want, I'd
like it to 'ask' first and give 'me' the option of installing any newly
found channels, any advice about how I can reconfigure WMC to eliminate the
above annoyances would be most welcome. TIA

I don't use Media Center myself but Googling found this, which may help:
http://malektips.com/vista-media-center-guide-remove-channels.html

 

[Anth]

I don't use Media Center myself but Googling found this, which may help:
http://malektips.com/vista-media-center-guide-remove-channels.html>

Thanks Dave, but that only allows one to edit or disable type channels, not
put WMC back to its original default condition, however searching the web I
have now found a way of actually doing this
<http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/09/clearing-guide-data-and-tuner-setup-from-windows-7-media-center.html>
although it does seem a rather involved (especially for the uninitiated) way
of having to go about things, especially as IMV, it would appear to be far
more logical to simply have a system 'reset' option in the main menu, just
as with a Freeview or Freesat receiver.

 

[Dave-UK]

Thanks Dave, but that only allows one to edit or disable type channels, not put WMC back to its
original default condition, however searching the web I have now found a way of actually doing
this
<http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/09/clearing-guide-data-and-tuner-setup-from-windows-7-media-center.html>
although it does seem a rather involved (especially for the uninitiated) way of having to go about
things, especially as IMV, it would appear to be far more logical to simply have a system 'reset'
option in the main menu, just as with a Freeview or Freesat receiver.

Instead of messing about stopping services and processes via task manager it may
be easier to boot the computer into safe mode and then delete the database files.
I don't think anything relating to Windows Media Center would be loaded in safe mode.