I wrote mceBackup and must admit I use it more for moving scheduled recordings around rather than the prefs but it should work as you want it to. I have found that Vista makes it harder to restore, so try: Go in to services and stop the Windows Media Center Receiver and scheduler services. Then restore the settings with mceBackup, ...

I will check how I coded it. I am sure I didn't change the way i do it between versions. The other option would be for the user to be able to override the defaults

I think its in the registry and I am not sure you could export and re-import it. I will try and find out

Hi The program does not copy the channels only the schedule recordings and custom line ups I don't think there is any way to that

I will try and find out if this is stored in any additional files. I would hope Media Center is not using the event log as a store for this info other than it being in the log for users to check

I have finally got round to getting a beta version of mceBackup 2.0 out. This is totally new version of my backup tool for Media Center Features: Backs up TV channel assignment Backs up Scheduled recordings and series recordings Backs up recorded TV to local drives, or networked drives (via UNC paths) Backup up an additional ...