[talon.karrde]

Ah that caused the problem then... Is there any workable fix?   

I ended up finding that it was conflicting with another application I had running in the background called airserver.  When that was loaded it would not let the focus do its thing.  I removed it and it works fine.

However all of this was working fine before that update so something changed that broke it.

Check to see what other apps you may have running   

I do not run any other apps (the pc is only for kodi). What I noticed (after disabling kodi shell) is that Launcher4Kodi does select (make active) the kodi window when another application is on top of it (and not in the exception list), but does not bring it in front at all, It stays minimised. 

any fix for this? running latest windows and most times using remote - kodi runs in minimised mode - when it does appear in maximised mode it hasnt got focus. i have to use the mouse to give it focus?