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I pruned all the asus stuff and I think i fixed it. 5 reboots without it losing focus. Think its safe to replace the shell now with big box. Hopefully I wont need to respond again.

This box isnt on the net, it doesnt even have AV software on it.

ok, so I boot up and the controller works for 10 seconds like in the video then becomes unresponsive. I do a single left click without moving the mouse and the controller comes back to life. /sighs So yes, seems that my problem is that Big Box is losing focus. Here is what I see in task manager. Any one have an idea what process is the culprit? The only thing in the startup folder is big box. Also to note, I am having this same problem if I replace the default win8 shell with Big Box, although I haven't tested the focus/mouse thing with that just yet. I am also tossing up the idea of dumping Win8 for Win7. But if I can figure this out, then I might not need to do this even though I kinda hate Win8.

This is what I am seeing on my end. I't doesn't seem like it's losing focus but I don't have a mouse atm to check that. I can look at that this weekend.

Yeah, let us know... I am am my wits end with this atm. I rebooted the machine 7 times before it was playable. 4 times the controller was DoA, 2 times the controller stopped responding after pressing a button or two, and the 7th reboot I managed to start a game. As for a fresh windows install... I am currently looking for a cheap enterprise/education key for win10 as I want to replace the default shell with Big Box and the only way to easily do that is with Shell Launcher which doesn't work with my pro/home keys.

I'm on a ASUS VM40B with 8gb ram running win8.1 with official MS dongle and 360 controller and/or USB controller. I would say it freezes up on me 50% of the time? I assumed it was the 360 dongle since the drivers are shit in anything other than win10 but i was having the same problems with the buffalo usb controller. When I break out the keyboard and bring up task manager, it's hit or miss if Big Box will become responsive or not. Been trying a few different things but nothing seems to show any results. The only thing I haven't really tried, which I am hesitant to do, is take the plunge and reformat with win10 on this box.

So it seems I am having a similar problem. My machine boots up from Win8 and Big Box starts. I use the controller to do anything and Big Box freezes up and the only thing that will fix it, maybe 50% of the time, is hooking a keyboard back up and pulling up task manager. Only then will Big Box become responsive again. I thought it was my 360 controller and/or the wireless dongle but its doing the same thing with a usb snes buffalo controller. Suggestions?