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
I know what the settings are. It doesn't do anything to Explorer. edit: Kind of like the old Windows themes... which begs the question, can we do more than "Dark"?
I am perplexed. If I turn it(dark mode) off I can go back to accessing subsets.
virtualcustoms.net/showthread.php/72751-Aero-Glass-for-Windows-10-RS1
look for theme signature bypass in the OP
I like to use darker colors whenever I can. A lot easier on the eyes when you spend hours staring at the screen. I use a FF plugin to invert things when I browse sites that are bright like this. I love that you can make youtube dark now. Some people find dark straining, but I find when the contrast is right, it's a lot easier to look at a screen that's mostly dark versus mostly light. When I spend all day looking at a bright white screen, I swear I can feel my face tensing up and the bags under my eyes feel like they need a massage. And then when I close my eyes it feels like the display is still beaming at me. Maybe my eyes are just really sensitive, but really I think it's just not natural to stare at a big, bright light source for extended periods of time. No amounts of adjustments to the display fix this for me. What makes the biggest difference is just having fewer bright things on the screen. Cool/warm doesn't matter too much. And actually lowering brightness/contrast makes things straining in a different way.
And windows 10 goes hard in on making it BRIGHT. Older versions were gray or beige and that at least wasn't so stark. On today's displays with their crazy contrast granularity and whites, using an OS that's straight up WHITE is super-jarring to me.
I’ve done a clean install of both FF and the plugin itself and it works for a day then breaks. There’s an underlying issue and it was definitely the W10 update for April.
Microsoft have a habit of releasing updates which almost always cause people issues. This was one of them for me.Yeh good add on, unfortunately it can't replace the Flashgot facility to build a gallery to download a series of images.
It was perfect, find an image, left click, build gallery, then just change the last number and it would build the entire gallery in a separate tab. No other add on has this functionality.