How do you back up Windows Media Centre Settings?

Posted in IT, Rant, Windows Vista by Will on January 16, 2007.

I’m still running Windows Vista RC2 at home - and I decided to upgrade to the final version of Vista.

So, I go copy all the files I’ll need to keep onto another drive - no problems.

Now, Where do I find my MCE Schedule so I can back that up? It’s fairly large - about 22 different recurring schedules. I’m sure others have larger lists. 

Well, after a whole bunch of searching online - noone seems to have written about it - so I did some digging. Turns out, it’s all stored in %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\All Users\Microsoft\eHome\Logs- under Vista. I presume for XP it’d be under Documents & Settings in a similar space.

I’m going to copy out \Recording\Recordings.xml and see how it goes.