Replace Game Launcher such as Playnite/Steam Big Picture on Windows startup without reveal Desktop at all, making PC Gaming Device look truly like Gaming Console
Origin from: https://github.com/Blueforcer/PlayniteShell and remake by me so it's One click Install and do not need to disable User Account Control (UAC), and not using BatToExeConverterX64 (some users afraid of Trojan wrong detection by Windows Defender)
What happen here?
Windows will boot normaly, but instead of loading the desktop (explorer.exe) after login, it will start the a script. This script simply load the Video in fullscreen and plays the bootanimation. While it plays Video, it loads Launcher (Playnite/Steam Big Picture) in the background and start Windows Desktop (explorer.exe) later which is all covering by Boot Video in Fullscreen.
Instruction:
- Enable Login without Password https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/windows-11-auto-login.html
- Download & Install script Download release (not repo - repo for reviewing code), copy it to anywhere and unzip it, and simply run Installer_Playnite.bat if you using Playnite or Installer_Steam.bat if you using Steam Big Picture (It will request for Admin permission or just run it as Admin at first) to install script automatically and Restart to test if it working (It should :D)
- Additional advice if you using Playnite is install "Splash Screen" Playnite's Extension here: https://playnite.link/addons.html#SplashScreen_d8c4f435-2bd2-49d8-98f6-87b1d415934a so you will almost never see Windows Desktop again when not needed.
P/s:
- To uninstall just run Uninstaller.bat
- This one use all viewable batch script & vbscript (vbscript is used here to make batch script running hidden) so it's totally safe
- mpv.exe in the release zip is a portable lightweight opensourced video player (https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv) I use to replace VLC (VLC need to install if using official one), I left a command in Playnite.bat & Steam.bat, if you already install VLC on PC and want to switch to VLC, simply mark out "::" and delete the mpv.exe line to use VLC instead. As I want my script to be simple.
- You can use any video as "boot" animation which is a mp4 in Videos folder.
- You are free to edit and use for other case such as for HTPC Media Launcher (Kodi...)