Still trying things to get this horrible thing working properly, or at least better. WinTv has been taking five minutes to load! and the EPG not much better especially with all the frezing and stuttering. I've been digging around the system files and came across the channel database. This file was 250meg on my system!! not surprising WinTV took so long to fire up. The was also a 'Compact' batch file in the folder and running that took the database down to a mere 100meg.

I went for a completed reinstall of 2.4c, uninstalling the current installation and blatting all the files left behind.

Bit of a pain setting favourites and recording folders etc. up, but the channel database is now 1meg and WinTV loads instantly. I've taken a copy of the database folder freshly initialised. I'll see what else it's cured and report back.

Think this needs fixing Mr Hauppauge!!