I'm going to cut straight to it;
I just discovered BB a couple days ago and am amazed and grateful for being able to use it. I went through the installer and said no to using it as a default shell, I was going to use ShellOn v2 to load it.
So after installing I went to ShellOn v2, added BB to it, then logged off and back on, it didn't load from what I could see, the normal explorer was going though. I then tried the rebooting option, nothing happened when I selected it, so I decided to manually reboot.
After the login screen the screen was black with only the ShellOn window trying to load the shell I presume. It gave me an error that it couldn't load it, I then pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL to get to Task Manager, opened a location of some random task to get explorer back (not sure if that should have even worked) and then went to ShellOn and selected explorer to load and used the logoff option.
That got me the normal explorer desktop back.
Now i'm not sure If I did anything wrong, or if ShellOn v2 doesn't work with W8.1 or whatnot but I just want to use BB stably and have the option to load back into explorer if it ever becomes too much for me.
I have had practice using Rainmeter and editing ini/cfg files for programs so if you need me to do such things then I should be ok.
Keep in mind I'm a noob, having heard of switching shells only a few days ago.
Thank you so much to anyone who can help me, and thanks again to Pitkon for letting me join the forum and use BB!