When I try starting xbmc, the gui does not appear, however, I see the xbmc process in task manager. After a few restarts the gui starts appearing again and things work properly. This has happened to me on win7 and after I upgraded to win8, on the new OS as well.
I have the same issue and have had it since I upgraded to Frodo. I posted about it awhile back but nobody was able to provide any insights. Whenever I resume my Windows 7 PC from sleep, and hit XBMC, it will hang for about 7-10 seconds before launching, until then you are looking at the Windows desktop with a normal mouse cursor. If you reboot the Windows 7 PC, it launches XBMC fine. So this issue, for me, started with Frodo + Sleep Resume.
So, does rolling back to an earlier version help?
Hi!
Try reinstalling XBMC if you have not.
I have reinstalled not only XBMC but also Windows 7 before without it helping. However, I just tried something else that may have helped -- I replaced my mounted network drives with straight SMB pathing in XBMC. I'll report back if I notice this fixes it (I'm at work). I have problems on my other computers that are all equipped with SSD whereby they have trouble waiting for Windows 7 to initialize the network device before trying to re-activate the mounted drive, and then it fails. Microsoft won't fix it because they are poo poo.