Thursday, August 9th 2018
Windows 10 Preview Build 17733 Introduces Instant Dark Windows
The "Night Light" toggle introduced with Windows 10 was an instant hit with users staying up long hours on the PC. When flicked, DWM applies a shader that filters out blue light, and adjusts the color temperature accordingly at a software-level, so even people without monitors that do this can have some degree of protection from the harshness of high color temperature and blue light. The same demographic of people are also looking for an instant toggle that changes Windows to a dark theme. Ask they did, and Microsoft responded in kind, with the Preview Build 17733.
The dark mode can be toggled in the Notifications Center menu of Windows 10. When flicked, all of the areas in Explorer that are normally white, or some brighter shade of gray, turn to black, or a darker shade. Such a UI from Microsoft dates back to the 1990s with its Encarta suite. You can use the dark theme even now, but you'd have to enable it via Windows Settings. It would now take three clicks to bring up the Notifications Center, and toggle both dark mode and night light.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
The dark mode can be toggled in the Notifications Center menu of Windows 10. When flicked, all of the areas in Explorer that are normally white, or some brighter shade of gray, turn to black, or a darker shade. Such a UI from Microsoft dates back to the 1990s with its Encarta suite. You can use the dark theme even now, but you'd have to enable it via Windows Settings. It would now take three clicks to bring up the Notifications Center, and toggle both dark mode and night light.
45 Comments on Windows 10 Preview Build 17733 Introduces Instant Dark Windows
What's next, a 3D multi-desktop environment? Take it slow, Microsoft. You're going too fast. Before we know it your damn OS could actually scale verctorically so 4K on small and medium monitors won't look like a 14 year old programmed the damn thing.
I live and learn.
@Prima.Vera that option is to only color the taskbar & window tab, not the entire UI. This preview build "paints" the entire UI elements in dark shades or black.
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On my recent 4K screen purchase, I had to select warm color temp + warm gamma + couple clicks down on green/blue + couple clicks up on red. They just love to sell blue whitepoint, I guess that's what sells when the uninformed look at computers at the local shop.
As for circadian rythm disruption, I just solve that by having dark mode on everything possible. Sure, my whites are midly blue, but there's less of it that just about anyone using a pissfilter, and it doesn't result in everything looking horrible.
/sarcasm