Also had this problem, tried to create exe packages on windows and had endless trouble (although windows apps aren't my expertise). The real killer in the end for me was some windows security feature that would start killing the process, not immediately, but after a couple of startups. It was an internal tool so in the end I used an executable batch script to start the program, that seemed to bypass the problem, but when it came time to add features and make things available for a wider audience I just abandoned the windows gui and moved to a web app.
