Some programs continue to save on & on even if I did not register, how can I stop this?

I had this problem with Media Center in Vista Home Premium for well over a year. Once I recorded a show, I find that it is set to record again and again and again once without putting myself to save. It's cluttering my hard drive and become a real pain.

This does not happen with every show, just a few. I've never been to "Series Record", I put only to record my shows, a day or two ahead of time and that is when I find a show sometimes has once more the value to save. Or sometimes I'll go to watch recorded shows and it showed that I had not put to save, Yes, it's a former title, I recorded in the past.

I've never had a new titled record shows on its own, only those who were registered in the past.

There must be a Medai Center file that contains the list of the recorded shows, if I could erase this file that should solve the problem. I tried to clear the cache & temporary files with various software hoping to delete this list but that did not work.

Suggestions?

And you are sure that no show has been inadvertently value "series"?  You can check this in recorded TV > view scheduled > series.
Another possibility is that (especially if it seems to be completely random episodes), it is re-registration of the episodes that did not previously save completely (due to the failure of the system, the loss of signal or other error.)  If this is the case, clear the history of recording (via recorded TV > view scheduled > history > clear history) will correct this.

As for deleting a file: If the above did not solve the issue, Yes, it's possible.
Assuming that your PC isn't TV Pack 2008 (check in the MC: tasks > settings > General > on media center to windows > software version: If the software version 6.0.xxxx, no TV Pack; if it is 6.1.xxxx, you have TV Pack), to do this:
Close Media Center.  Open Services.msc.  Stop all the "Windows Media Center xxxx" services. "
Open Explorer.  Go to tools > folder options; Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" and select "Show the hidden files and folders" > OK.  Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\Recording.  Copy the recordings.xml and recordings.xml.bak (recordings.bak?  It has been a little while, and I'm on Win7 these days...) For more security (just in case...) and delete the originals.
Reset the display options in Explorer they had before.  Close all windows and restart.
Windows will recreate the recordings.xml to restart files, and they are going to be empty - no entries.

HTH,
Chris

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