[smurff33]

Thanks for quick reply, i will give your suggestions a try later when home, when you mention "Windows 8 hybrid shutdown enabled" what exactly do this mean?

Me to i'd like to know what "windows hybrid shutdown is" for when i get xbmconimon to work i try without the xbmc shell.

Hybrid shutdown or boot is a new feature in Windows 8 which makes booting process much faster. Read this to know more and how to enable it in your PC. My PC takes only 10 seconds to boot from a 5200 RPM HDD where as a normal boot takes around 30 seconds. This means no need to go for expensive SSDs just to get fatser boot time.

When you shutdown from XBMC's default shutdown menu, it is a full shutdown and so the next booting will take time. In the installer, I have added options to add fast shutdown to the metro UI and to replace xbmc's shutdown menu.

I have seen the word imon mentioned alot in this thread, what does imon actually mean?

There are some PC cases with a built-in LCD or VFD display and IR receiver. Most of these use OEM products from soundgraph. iMON manager is the application that controls this display and remote control functioning. To display information from xbmc on the lcd/vfd, another program XBMConIMON is usually used in combination with iMON manager. Now the problem is that if explorer is not running (when xbmc is set as shell), xbmconimon will not function correctly.

Thanks for your reply's to all my posts today, I will have a go at your suggestions later and see what happens, thanks again.