[wolfodeiwolfy]

^^ I didn't update my Win 8 to 8.1. Also this is the first time someone has mentioned this problem of explorer not loading after xbmc is closed.

What

This problem have been discussed in posts 767, 769, 770, 791, 798. So this is not the first time someone mentioned it.

But, it follow your instruction, I use xbmclauncher as shell and add xbmc to app that start with xbmclauncher. It works as usual, but there is still a black screen and windows still doesn't start when quiting xbmc. So I still have to launch taskmanager add start explorer.exe process.

BUT

If I add explorer.exe to app list that start with xbmclauncher, It is ok. Unfortunately, my htpc doesn't boot directly to xbmc but to windows and xbmc is started very faster that previous solution (shell=explorer.exe + xbmc at windows start).

This is not totally satisfying because each program that start windows start set xbmc in the background