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Thanks Nimo. I will post the installation steps with images.

Installation steps



XBMC Launcher - Main application.

XBMC Advanced settings file - Installs an advanced settings file for xbmc. I use it to skip the movies by 10 seconds instead of the default 30 seconds when you press left or right arrow keys. Also it will treat multiple artists in songs using the separator /. This is the default separator used in media monkey.

XBMC Keymap file - Creates a custom keymap file for xbmc to be used with MCE remote controls.

Change XBMC Shutdown Menu - Changes shutdown menu as shown in the image in first post. I need only these three menus. The shutdoen button can be configured to Sleep or Hibernate also.

Set XBMCLauncher as Windows Shell - Changes the windows shell to xbmc launcher instead of Explorer.exe. This way your system will boot directly into XBMC without loading windows desktop thus speeding up the boot processing considerably. On exiting xbmc, you can start explorer.



Select this option if you want MCE remotes to work with the included keymap file. Restart your PC for the change to effect.

Click finish to run XBMCLauncher. If everything is fine, it should start xbmc.




The application expects that you have installed xbmc in the default 32 bit Windows Program Files Directory which is usually C:\Program Files\XBMC for 32 bit and C:\Program Files (86)\XBMC for 64 bit. If XBMC is not found in the default location which the app will prompt you to select the xbmc.exe file. Once selected, it will start XBMC.



Menu accessible from Windows System Tray.

Change Focus Delay. Default is 10 seconds which means every 10 seconds XBMCLauncher will send a signal to focus or bring xbmc on top of all other windows.



XBMC Shutdown action. This menu is visible only of you select the custom shutdown file. Choose the action you want when you press the 'Shutdown' button in XBMC. I am using Hibernate and my htpc resumes to XBMC home window within 10 seconds from power down state.




You can change Windows Shell from the application without reinstalling xbmclauncher. If XBMCLauncher is set as the shell, then windows desktop is not loaded until you exit xbmc.

I have installed XBMC launcher on my windows 7 64bit machine and I have the following issue. I am using flirc for the remote control but it does not work when xbmc launcher disables the windows explorer in order to launch xbmc.
I have enabled/disabled focus but this does not make any difference. And if it works after a while xbmc it starts it looses again connectivity when I bring xbmc back from suspend.

Do you have any suggestions for that??