Hi Branais,
We too have experienced this problem for lonnnngggg timmeee! I suspect dozens of customers are not aware PowerDVD13.exe often keeps running when they close the app. I posted this issue months ago and was told "
sounds like a specific issue on your platform". After closing PDVD13 our laptop fan would speed up, Task Manager showed it wasn't closing.
As stupid as this sounds, try selecting different links in your left panel before closing the app. For instance, I click on a few different playlists and sometimes our My Computer links to our NAS folders.......then close the app. Many times this works for us.
We only have the one exe running. We don't use the library, movie info, no DLNA, basically everything is turned off. I also use those old PDVD tricks of changing key files names so certain processes never start. Updates always put them back.
Program Files (86)>Cyberlink>PowerDVD13:
rename PowerDVD13Agent.exe to
NO_PowerDVD13Agent.exe
Rename PowerDVD13ML.exe to
NO_PowerDVD13ML.exe
Program Files (86)>Cyberlink>PowerDVD13>Movie:
rename PowerDVD.exe to
NO_PowerDVD.exe