I am in the process of building myself a Steam Box - a PC running Steam that is going to be plugged into my TV without a keyboard and mouse plugged into it. I am looking at running Steam instead of Explorer as the shell, on account of Windows 8 forcibly starting up with Metro and me not wanting to install a workaround to prevent Metro from appearing.

With this in mind, I was wondering if I could customise the contents of the 'Exit' menu in Steam Big Picture Mode. The default Exit menu contains the following options;

Ideally, I'd want to get rid of the following options;

• Return to Desktop
• Exit Steam
• Change User...

Is this possible? How can I customise the 'Exit' menu in Steam Big Picture mode?

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No, but as of the recent Steam releases you can trick Steam into believing it is running under SteamOS by launching Steam with the -steamos command line parameter.

Once in big picture mode, this option removes the 'Return to Desktop' option and 'Exit Steam' option from the Exit menu.

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