ethought: how about your wallet, as far as I know, wallet ran in the background for a while typical for win8, then GUI comes to the front. Solved?
No, not working.
Let it run in the background for a couple of hours and no GUI came up.
Someone has successfully run wallet under win7 which should be same for win8. What if you delete %appdata%\fractalcoin folder (make sure backup wallet.dat if you have coins there) and then open the wallet?