wtf is waketoxbox?

WakeToXbox is a small Windows tray app that lets you wake a sleeping PC with a game controller and have it launch straight into the Xbox Full Screen Experience, Windows' console-style interface built for living room use with a controller. It is built for people who want a couch gaming setup that behaves more like a games console than a desktop computer. Before installing the app, three one-time changes are needed on the PC. First, the Xbox Full Screen Experience mode must be turned on in Windows Settings. Second, Windows sign-in needs to be skipped entirely, using the netplwiz tool and a sign-in settings change, so the PC boots straight to the desktop without a password prompt. Third, the BIOS and Windows power settings must be adjusted so a USB controller is allowed to wake the machine from sleep, which the README documents in detail since it varies by motherboard. Once those changes are made, the WakeToXbox app runs quietly in the system tray using no resources until Windows reports that the PC woke up. During setup, the user puts the PC to sleep, wakes it with the controller, and picks that wake event from a list in the app's settings window. From then on, whenever the controller wakes the PC, the app detects the wake source, shows a black overlay to hide the desktop, and sends the Windows shortcut that opens Xbox mode automatically. The app is written in plain C# using WinForms and the .NET Framework, and it can be built from source with a PowerShell script. The repository also keeps the project's earlier AutoHotkey and PowerShell script based approach available for anyone who prefers it, though the README notes that some anti-cheat systems do not get along with AutoHotkey, which the newer app avoids. A key warning in the README is that skipping the Windows sign-in screen means anyone who wakes the PC gets immediate access to it, which the author frames as a tradeoff for convenience in a shared living room setup.