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@ -2,20 +2,6 @@ Transform your Windows Computer into a Video Game console first, PC second!
**This script is a WIP. Currently, the main functionality works as intended. Steam Big Picture launches automatically when the OS boots, then explorer starts automatically after a delay, which allows you to exit to desktop via the menu without needing to launch a shortcut for Explorer.exe first.**
What remains to be fixed:
1. Completely suppressing the taskbar from appearing when Windows Explorer automatically launches in the background. The taskbar displays temporarily for ~1 second when explorer.exe launches, which makes it appear over the Big Picture UI; and then it disappears. This is not intended behavior, and it is visually distracting. Potential solutions are a script written with NIRCMD, or changing the z-order of explorer.exe (or Steam) temporarily via a C++ application. I'll have to do more research.
One possible solution is to make the taskbar transparent while explorer is launching, with a timer which resets it to the previous opaque setting.
Another is Coremeter. Coremeter could potentially be adapted for the z-order method (If that's even a viable solution, I'll have to look into it more)
https://github.com/cppshane/CoreMeter
2. Disabling the Windows welcome screen entirely. Currently the Boot logo is removed as intended, and the script is set to log the user account which ran the script in automatically. The welcome screen still remains, and will be disabled in future versions of the script. Going to have to write a custom C++ application to do so since there is no off the shelf way to disable the Welcome Screen on Windows 11.
3. Setting Steam to start as admin (VBS script to suppress the command prompt window set as the shell at boot > VBS script launches the batch script > batch sets steam big picture as the shell > batch launches steam as admin > delayed explorer batch script resets the shell to the VBS script so Steam launches as the default shell at boot.)
# GamesDows
The Enable GamesDows script makes Windows boot straight into Steam Big Picture without displaying any Explorer UI elements to ensure a Game Console like experience on Windows. I made this because I have a Steam Deck and I want the experience to mirror that of Steam OS as closely as possible. However, this will work on any Windows PC, the commands are not specific to the Steam Deck.
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**Disable GamesDows Script**
The Revert script reverts all changes, which resets the Windows configuration to what it was before the Enable GamesDows script was run. If the script fails to revert any of the changes, they can be manually removed. If needed, delete the Scheduled Task created in Task Scheduler called "RunDelayedExplorerStart", as well as the files the Enable GamesDows script creates.
What remains to be fixed:
1. Completely suppressing the taskbar from appearing when Windows Explorer automatically launches in the background. The taskbar displays temporarily for ~1 second when explorer.exe launches, which makes it appear over the Big Picture UI; and then it disappears. This is not intended behavior, and it is visually distracting. Potential solutions are a script written with NIRCMD, or changing the z-order of explorer.exe (or Steam) temporarily via a C++ application. I'll have to do more research.
One possible solution is to make the taskbar transparent while explorer is launching, with a timer which resets it to the previous opaque setting.
Another is Coremeter. Coremeter could potentially be adapted for the z-order method (If that's even a viable solution, I'll have to look into it more)
https://github.com/cppshane/CoreMeter
2. Disabling the Windows welcome screen entirely. Currently the Boot logo is removed as intended, and the script is set to log the user account which ran the script in automatically. The welcome sign-in animation still remains, and will be disabled in future versions of the script. Going to have to write a custom C++ application to do so since there is no off the shelf way to disable the Welcome Screen on Windows 11.
3. Setting Steam to start as admin (VBS script to suppress the command prompt window set as the shell at boot > VBS script launches the batch script > batch sets steam big picture as the shell > batch launches steam as admin > delayed explorer batch script resets the shell to the VBS script so Steam launches as the default shell at boot.)