[Pussa]

Hello,

I'd been using XP MCE with DTV and Foxtel together with IceTV as a guide for FTA stations only for around 18 months without any issues.

I decided to upgrade to Vista about two weeks ago when SP1 was made available and also took the opportunity to move to Free EPG. After a couple of weeks of letting the system bed in and just running with DTV and Free EPG I thought it was time merge Foxtel back into the equation. Using wixkidder's guide to merge the two succuessly I basked in the glorly of having finished a successful build, until the guide update the following morning...

It seems that when a guide update occurrs, it generates a new EPG (new .sdf and .xml files) and switches to these new guide files in the registry (currentepg value). It trashes all my Foxtel channels from the guide and displays no guide data for all the FTA channels that were originally scanned when I was running DTV alone. I can easily change it back by modifying the currentepg key to use my original .sdf file but when I tell the guide to update again it all reverts back.

I understand that the SP1 already includes the guide hotfixes and I have enabled them in the registry. I've also disabled the mceupdate Scheduled Task and made the pref.xml file read only, however, these have made no difference. Has anyone else seen this behaviour problem under Vista using Free EPG and DTV and Foxtel together.

Thanks.