If you’ve ever recorded movies from live TV in Windows 7 Media Center you may have noticed that by default these movies are also included in your Media Center Movie Library. For some this may be a perfect fit but others likely won’t want commercial laden and edited for TV movies filling up their Movie Library listings. Ian Dixon of The Digital Lifestyle has the solution in the form of a simple registry edit.

To get started open up Regedit by typing “regedit” into the start menu’s search box and pressing enter. Next using the tree listing on the left hand side locate the following folder:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Settings\ProgramGuide

Next add a new DWORD entry by right-clicking the right hand pane and selecting New –> DWORD. Name this new entry excludeTVFromMoviesLibrary and then double click the new listing to set the value. To disable TV movies from appearing in your Movie Library set the value to 1, for the default behavior set the value to 0.

That’s it, close Regedit and restart your Windows 7 Media Center for the changes to take effect.

Of course, you could always download this registry file to remove TV movies from the Windows 7 Media Center Movie Library but it’s always good to know what a registry file is changing and how to reverse it. Thanks to Ian Dixon for the tip and be sure to stop by The Digital Lifestyle for even more Media Center related news and info.