When I watch replays, then sometimes I can press ESC to get the menu on the screen - which I often use to enter View-settings to setup costum-view, but most of the times it simply just quits the replay. Can someone tell me how to avoid this ?

ESC menu is only avaliable in SPR replays in MPR just exits the replay

Its pretty simple in avoiding it - just don't press ESC... if your looking for a better way to avoid it then ... hmm, I really don't know how else to avoid it. (The second part of this sounds brutal and I tried rewriting it several times... I am not being rude though)