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If you enable auto login on Windows as well as tell Steam to open on login, it should cut out those steps from your workflow.

Edit: here's a link that tells you how to do that. It's a bit involved since you have to mess with Registry keys, but it should be possible https://www.alphr.com/how-to-enable-auto-login-in-windows-10...

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That would indeed be a possibility, but I'm absolutely not a fan of not requiring any authentication to power-on and use my PC :D

Fair enough. Since you mentioned it's a Gaming PC specifically, I assume this is a machine that's only used for that. In that case I personally wouldn't mind leaving it unprotected, but I can understand why someone else would.

Yeah, it is only used for gaming. You know, to be fair, I could enable auto-login without a problem. The probability that someone else turns it on, snoops around and finds something they shouldn't see is close to 0%. But somehow it feels dirty to disable authentication on a device, if you know what I mean.

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