Nice one Nick,
i was a bit worried about killing the ehshell.exe like that, looks like it will do the trick.
The only thing is i cant get it running

Ive downloaded the new gameloader and extracted it to the windows directory as before, but i cant get it to work; MCE minimises and returns as it was a second later.
I tried double clicking on the GameLoader.exe to check the syntax & got this error report:
GameLoader.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Error Signiture:
AppName: gameloader.exe AppVer: 1.0.1.153 ModName: gameloader.exe
ModVer: 1.0.1.153 Offset: 00001326
Maybe im using the wrong syntax? Heres an example from one of my shortcuts:
C:\WINDOWS\GameLoader.exe [-k] "N:\Games\EA Sports Rugby 06\Rugby06.exe"
Any ideas?
Amos