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I installed KODI on a W10 HTCP and set it up to load at startup.

Everything works fine except KODI is not in the front and doesn't respond to the remote control. I have to click with the mouse to bring it to front so it responds to the remote control

Is there a way to force KODI to be in the front?

Thanks,

Eyal

[Mungo]

Give FocusBitch a whirl. Haven't tested it on Win10, but am using it successfully on one of my Win7 HTPC's.

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Give FocusBitch a whirl. Haven't tested it on Win10, but am using it successfully on one of my Win7 HTPC's.

Thanks for the reply Mungo. This utility seem to work fine when i launch it from a folder. But when launching it from the Startup folder it doesn't take the focus. It blinks on the taskbar and KODI is launched but doesn't get the focus

Any other ideas?

[Mungo]

Bummer. The only other thing I've done to clean things up and make it less "computery" when booting up and loading, is to change the windows shell to kodi, so instead of explorer.exe loading on startup, it loads kodi.

I run a domain at home, so I push these settings via GPO, but the registry change / addition to do this is here:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\Shell <-- you may need to create the shell String.

Value: C:\program files (x86)\Kodi\Kodi.exe (or wherever you've got kodi installed, if not default)

*warning: This IS playing around with your computers registry, so please be careful

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Thanks for this workaround but I need to find a more solid solution because I need to install this machine for a client.

Question: if you replace the shell on startup to Kodi, can you still load the explorer manually if you need to?

[Mungo]

Thanks for this workaround but I need to find a more solid solution because I need to install this machine for a client.

Question: if you replace the shell on startup to Kodi, can you still load the explorer manually if you need to?

Not much more solid than forcing Kodi,and only kodi to load on startup. Unless you've got other GUI related programs set to start on startup, you won't see anything else at all :-) - it's very clean and fast. I should have said though it's not much good though for those using their HTPC for other tasks other than Kodi / HTPC / Remote controlled app's.

And yeah - if you bring up task manager, start new task and punch in explorer.exe, the usual shell will load.

Short of those 2 solutions, I'm outta ideas, as they're the only 2 solutions I use in my setup that work as intended.

Cheers,

Mungo

[baijuxavior]

Try launcher4kodi. It works pretty good in Win 10.

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Not much more solid than forcing Kodi,and only kodi to load on startup. Unless you've got other GUI related programs set to start on startup, you won't see anything else at all :-) - it's very clean and fast. I should have said though it's not much good though for those using their HTPC for other tasks other than Kodi / HTPC / Remote controlled app's.

And yeah - if you bring up task manager, start new task and punch in explorer.exe, the usual shell will load.

Short of those 2 solutions, I'm outta ideas, as they're the only 2 solutions I use in my setup that work as intended.

Cheers,

Mungo

I was asking mostly from maintenance perspective. I have to admit that the more I think about it the more elegant and apealing it looks. It also keeps the user from messing around with the HTPC. I think I'm going to give it a shot.

I assume I can launch regedit from the task launcher if I need to bring back the Explorer as the default shell?

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Try launcher4kodi. It works pretty good in Win 10.

I will give it also a try. Thanks for the info

[majorsl]

I use Startup Delayer which works well with Windows 10:

http://www.r2.com.au/page/products/show/...p-delayer/

I need to run a batch file before Kodi starts up. This will let me do that and then only launch Kodi when the .bat is complete.

The fact that it properly brings Kodi to the foreground with Win 10 is why I started using it, I used to call Kodi via the batch file with Win 7 and that put it in the foreground.

No need to buy the advanced version, the free one is all you need.