[Shadowmeph]

I will Admit that I didn't read through all of the post so I apologize in advance if this already has been answered .
I have a couple of questions

I was using XBMC on Linux which worked great I liked being able to press the power button and my system would sleep or hibernate ( not sue which it was doing lol) but my Gaming system messed up and I had to install windows 8.1 so that I could play my Windows games .

the main problem is that when I press the power button it turns off is my monitor and I can still hear the fans running and my keyboard and mouse stay lit up.

I don't want XBMC ( at this time) to load as soon as I boot into win8.1 but I do like the idea of XBMC closing explorer when xbmc s running.
the thing is that I am usually downloading something using utorrent in the back ground and need utorrent and a web browser running while XBMC is running is this possible?

the other question is that after I get my Gaming PC up and running again can I change the settings so that XBMC does boot up and close explorer on system boot and have both my web browser and utorrent running in the back ground??