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I must apologise to all.. I am not very profficient in these things.. but I do try.

Here is what I have found after pulling out what little remains of my hair.

1. The basic "bat" file approach just didnt work for me. It is as if something is "re-closing" imon. Its the same with the bat as it was using "restart frontview on exit" from the minidisplay plugin. With Mediaportal starting windowed, I can seee it start, and then close again.

2. (well not really a step, but another scenario) Some combinations that I no longer recall restarted imon, but it always reset frontpage to "never" withiing the imon menu, meaning that imon started but frontview didnt (no matter if I set frontview to always or automatic).

3. Maybe I am being a bit slow, but looking into scheduler, I could not see an option that worked for me.

4. Event ghost. Well.. my first attempts really refelected my findings in point 2. I thought I had this worked out by figuring out how to add a delay, but I had the same problem of the Frontview option always being reset to "never"

So finally, I seem to have botched together a solution.

I set minidisplay to leave frontview running. I have then used an app called "pcsview" that I can call to kill an app via a bat file.

I used this bat in eventghost to close (kill) imon when mediaportal starts... and obviously set eventghost to restsrt imon on mediaportal exit. Seems to work "so far" but I would still like to establish just whats wrong with my set up, or a more elegant solution if anyone has one (apologies if that sounds like I am saying suggestions to date are not elegant... Im not.. just they are not working for me unfotunatly)

Thanks all.