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Posted on 12/30/2018 9:10:02 AM PST by dayglored
Dayglored note: The article is very image intensive. Definitely check it out -- I'm not going to try to re-post all the graphics in this excerpt.
Give into the power of the dark side with the dark theme in Windows 10.
If you’ve seen the Dark Mode that Apple recently introduced with its macOS 10.14 Mojave operating system update, and wished that Windows 10 could look the same, well, it can! Microsoft has quietly slipped the feature into not only the latest version of Windows 10 but also its Edge browser and Microsoft Office applications. We show you how to find the settings that can turn your PC to the dark side.
Before you begin you’ll need to update to the latest version of Windows 10, as the Dark Mode is a new feature in the October 2018 release. See our How to use Automatic Updates in Windows 10 for more details.
Turning on the Dark Mode in Windows 10 is surprisingly easy, as there are no additional apps to download or anything like that. Instead, you need to open the Start Menu and click on the Settings icon (the one that looks like a gear) found in the lower left corner.
Next, select the Personalisation option then click on the Colours tab in the left hand column.
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[Much more here]
(Excerpt) Read more at techadvisor.co.uk ...
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Disk 1 of 2079! LOL
It was only last year that I finally got rid of my Windows 95 diskette installation set...
The article at the link shows Instructions yet at the end doesn’t show an example of a dark mode screen. It leaves us hanging in the dark— pun intended.
Ah yes Windows 10. That’s the program that loses the letters on the key board on startup after one of their gazillion updates and you can’t get past the log in screen, you know, on account of the keyboard doesn’t work anymore. So you, a computer know nothing has to go into the BIOS and start screwing around. This by the way is a work computer hooked up to a Plotter without which I ain’t getting any work done. So in my blundering way I find “roll back last update” and viola the keyboard starts up fine. Now I’m feeling good about having fixed my work computer all by myself and I can go back to eating and paying the rent and stuff when I discover that there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO SHUTDOWN WITHOUT UPDATING. Windows seems to be getting stupider as it gets older...
Tried it out.
Nifty.super.cool (In my very best imitation of a ValleyGirl squeek)
No sale.
However, this really makes me wonder if there are any adults in charge at Redmond. I’d think there would be enough worklist items outstanding on just Win10 domestic development (such as reviewing the last couple “Update” CF’s) that a paperhanging exercise like this would be left to the Freeware geeks.
(A few more moves like this and our lone Win10 laptop is going to get permanently switched over to Cinnamon)
Yeah that’s a good one.
In my book a must have for Windows is flu.x. Found at https://justgetflux.com/
Download - install - and this program produces an easy toggle on/off red shift for using your Windoze computer at night. Makes your LED screens less bright and stimulating.
Not to be a spoil sport but... you can do something similar to this by changing your desktop screen background to black. Even works in Win 7 :)
Granted, this only affects the desktop. Applications like Office are not affected.
Shutdown = noun
Shut down = verb
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