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Hey Cal Thanks for this. I ended up giving up on BB because i just had too many games in Windows Store that i could not do without. But even without BB/LaunchBox the amount of issues I would generally have trying to use my windows gaming PC as a "couch" or an console type of experience setup became really annoying.. Controllers will randomly stop working, some games in steam will fail to start (or claim they are already running), some games will start but the damn resolutions may be messed up, audio may work on some boot ups (atmos) on others it will default to stereo) and on and on with random ass issues - thank you Microsoft. I got to the point where i could not count on my PC just working, so got my son a Switch which he loves and i use the PC when i am ready to spend some time messing with it to get it working. Two quick examples from last week. Bought wolfenstein youngblood on steam as been looking forward to it, fired it up and the damn resolution was locked to 480 something and had to go in an mess with some ini files to get it working. put two hours aside to do some gaming spent that time troubleshooting and fixing the issues. Fired up rocket league which has been working fine and that res was locked to 720 had to go in and make some changes. Ok rant over. I guess I am just tired for always having to mess with something just to get it working. As we are in a lockdown, i might just nuke the PC again and rebuild trying the above method. Do i need a .bat script for each Windows store game? Is this method still working well for you? can you give an example of how you have set it up (if you have the time). Thanks hopefully your suggestion helps other people on here. p.s folks dont get me wrong not pointing the finger at LB - They have been great in supporting the community and love what they have done with the product. I just miss having a windows gaming PC that just worked from my couch.

Thanks will give this a try over the coming days. Have a happy new year all.

I was in bed when I saw your message so decided to jump out and give it a try. Went task manager route.. and got the error access denied. Seems a permissions issue. Went manually into the folder. Tried to launch the exe and got permissions error. Went into file properties> security > advance double clicked on my user account “this access control entry is corrupt. Delete it and create a new one” did some googling. Seems to be a common issue. Have tried to create a new one with full premissions. But still getting the error. Can launch game fine from start or launch box. Just cant launch it from the windows app folder... sadly cant test out your recommendation:(

Hey folks. Got a bit of an issue here and there’s more to it then the title. Iv got big box working beautifully. I have windows 10 booting straight into bigbox via the shell/regedit method. So no windows desktop load and it’s lighting fast booting into bigbox. Steam games work fine. Origin, Uplay have no issues. How ever when I tried to run Forza4 I got a “An error occurred while trying to launch the game: Class not registered.” I tried some other games and realised all games I’ve bought via Microsoft store, forza 7, gears of war, halo etc etc are not working. If I try to run the MS store I get the same error. i undid the registery change I had made and restored shell:explorer.exe and all is working fine again. does any one have any tips or thoughts on how I can get a work around working. I really do not like having windows boot into well windows and then having bigbox start. The method above works 10/10 times with my setup. Booting into windows desktop first and then having bigbox auto start is a 50/50... Thanks

Thank you neil9000, apologies I was hoping to get this baked into the orginal theme. Iv had weird glitches with my main rig and custom themes. Themes that work perfectly on my laptop will cause issues or random ass bugs on my desktop. It’s a long 1 year saga. What’s working right now is just a pure back to basic build. Sorry did not mean to did up an old thread but thanks for replying. Your avatar reminded me of epic rap battles bill gates vs Steve jobs, good watch if you haven’t seen it!

Digging up a really old thread so forgive me. Did anyone manage to get this done? Looking for a way to show platforms horizontally across the screen in bigbox rather then vertically on the side. Thanks.

Thanks. I found an old post going back to 2016 mentioning it may get added. I’m guessing it never did. There maybe some theme code floating around that can change the layout for the platforms. I’d rather not try to create a new theme from scratch. I’m happy with the default theme and ideally just need to change this one thing. Can anyone suggest a copy and paste step process? Thanks.

Hey folks. Silly question. Trying to figure out how to display the platforms horizontal instead of veritical when bigbox default theme launches. Can someone point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Yep. It’s a weird one. Thought I had lost the plot. Checked on my laptop and it was working fine. Unintalled and reinstalled 8.7 from scratch and same issue again. So went back to the working one and then did an upgrade. All working fine now. Must have snagged somewhere. Thank you Microsoft!!

Ok weird as hell. I could simply drag and drop any icon into the launch box window and add it. So uninstalled 8.7 installed 8.4 same issue could not drag and drop. Uninstalled 8.4 installed 8.1 and now I can drag and drop again... Any thoughts or help. Going to import everything I need before upgrading back to 8.7

Hey folks. Just installed 8.7 i could swear there was an option when importing to import links /shortcuts etc or I could even drag and drop my game short cuts into launch box... seems to be missing or am I loosing the plot?

Thought I’d post a quick reply. Nuked the PC. Reinstalled windows. All good now. Feels good to have a clean install!

Hey folks. Scratching my head here. Starting pc from power off. Big picture launches the start intro video and then I get a black screen. I have to then either hit the windows key on the keyboard to restart or alt ctrl DEL if I restart from a black screen state it will work on restart. If I shut down on a black screen state and then power up I’ll get back screen again running this on windows 10 with nividia 980 card. All updates are applied. Tried to fix this by uninstalling launch box and then reinstalling. No joy. Many thoughts or tips? Get the below error when I kill BP The Application object is being shut down. App: Version: 8.4 Type: System.InvalidOperationException Site: System.IO.Packaging.Package GetResourcePackage(System.Uri) Source: PresentationFramework at System.Windows.Application.GetResourcePackage(Uri packageUri) at System.Windows.Application.GetResourceOrContentPart(Uri uri) at System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent(Object component, Uri resourceLocator) at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.App.InitializeComponent() at () at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.BigBoxProgram.Main() Recent Log: 15:31:52 Exception

love it, backgrounds sounds reminded me of aliens!!!

Hey sorry for digging up an old thread. I was looking for the same thing and thought I would do a search. Did you find a solution for this. I would love to have an icon that just says shut down which you can select in big picture rather then >escape > scroll to shut down or exit trying to make this experience as kid (5yrs old) friendly as I can.. thanks.

issues is related to any video I use...

Hey guys, trying to figure out how to make the opening video when launching big box run in full rather then end early. Installed this earlier on today - however the video does not complete before going into the platform selection screen. any advice? thanks.