[MatthewHope]

Yeah, tried that too, even tried changing the shell manually to EventGhost by editing the registry to see if that would make a difference. Still no luck.

What I did to test my setup was once the system booted into XBMC I preseed ctrl+alt+Del to bring up Task Manager and used that to start the EventGhost User Interface. (EventGhost does start on system boot along with XBMC, but doesn't display the User Interface unless you manually start it).

This User Interface creates a list of any activity that EventGhost has monitored on the left hand side of the screen.

I switched between applications, but EventGhost did not regiiter any activity

I then started Explorer (From Task Manager) and switched between applications once again. EventGhost then started working correctly and was registering all activity again.

I conclude from this that EventGhost requires Explorer to be running in order to work correctly.

However I hope that someone is able to prove me wrong, or has a suggestion for a workaround, as that messes up my plan to boot straight into XBMC & EventGhost without loading Windows first.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted, even if that suggestion is to leave it alone, as what I want to achieve is impossible ;-).

Matt