If there are other apps that support the new dark colors, often times it will appear under the app’s personalization settings. If you’re running the latest version of Mail and Calendar, you can go to Settings > Personalization, and under “Colors” choose between the Light theme and Dark theme options. Other apps with dark theme also include Outlook Mail and Calendar version 17.6216.42271.0 or later. On Microsoft Edge, go to the Settings menu and under “Choose a theme”, you change the from Light to Dark. For example, in Groove Music, you can simply go to Settings, and scroll down to “Background” and change from Light to Dark. In addition, Microsoft is also bringing dark colors to some of its apps, including Groove Music, Xbox, and Microsoft Edge, and Office 2016 - Here’re the instructions to switch to the Dark Gray theme in Office.Īs such, if you want to go dark as much as possible in the operating system, you can change the theme for these apps as well.
It’s worth pointing that as the name of the option describes, not everything in the operating system will go dark – just the Start menu, taskbar, and action center, everything else will conserve its colors, including apps, File Explorer, desktop applications, and Settings app. Under “Choose a color”, you only need to turn off the “Show color on Start, taskbar, and action center” option. However, in time the software giant finally integrated the dark theme in the final release of Windows 10.Įnabling the new dark theme in Windows 10 is pretty straightforward, the only thing you have to do is to open the Settings app (you can use the Windows + I keyboard shortcut), then navigate to Personalization, and the go to Colors.
Originally, the dark theme was only available for Windows Phone users, then during the pre-release phase of Windows 10, the dark theme appeared for the first time as a hidden feature and it required to modify the Windows registry to make it work, which wasn’t an ideal solution.
However, unlike previous versions, Windows 10 introduces the idea of dark themes on the operating system and apps for those users who prefer the more simplistic design and dislike colorful patterns. Windows 10 is very customizable as it comes with a variety of personalization options and colored themes you can choose to make the operating system more personal.
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