Windows 10 Preview Build 17733 Introduces Instant Dark Windows

[Fx]

Sweet!!! I've been waiting for this forever! Goodbye Windows 7.

/sarcasm

 

[Pjokerxp_]

https://imgur.com/OBhb2YF

https://imgur.com/ZaBWbB2

 

[StrayKAT]

Sweet!!! I've been waiting for this forever! Goodbye Windows 7.

/sarcasm

You act like this is isolated. The cool thing about 10 is constant improvements and additions going on 3 years now (at least for consumer versions).

 

[Totally]

What's so special about it??

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Beat me to it. This has been my reality from day one. This appears to be for people who don't know what settings are.

 

[StrayKAT]

The difference is the base system - like Windows Explorer in the screenshots. And not just anything with the UWP api.

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"?

 

[jsfitz54]

No problems here
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I can't open subsets. Page loads but that is all.
I am perplexed. If I turn it(dark mode) off I can go back to accessing subsets.

 

[R0H1T]

I can't open subsets. Page loads but that is all.
I am perplexed. If I turn it(dark mode) off I can go back to accessing subsets.

I am in dark mode as well, I can't say what's the problem with your system but since you're an insider you should submit the bug report to MS. They'll look into it & hopefully this could be resolved before long.

 

[StrayKAT]

I am in dark mode as well, I can't say what's the problem with your system but since you're an insider you should submit the bug report to MS. They'll look into it & hopefully this could be resolved before long.

Can you answer if it's a theme system. or just a dark mode like the one for UWP?

 

[R0H1T]

Can you answer if it's a theme system. or just a dark mode like the one for UWP?

Not a theme just like dark mode for UWP, it reminds me of high contrast and certain custom themes under XP. I don't particularly like it but it isn't too bad atm.

 

[RealNeil]

I also used aquarium screensaver.

A lot of us did. I enjoyed it immensely.

 

[er557]

Nothing exciting in this news piece, I have been patching windows theme system since forever and going thru dozens of themes(visual styles)- dark and light- from deviantart. And no, not braking any system file.

A lot of us did. I enjoyed it immensely.

serenescreen marine aquarium still works today imho

 

[ZeDestructor]

Nothing exciting in this news piece, I have been patching windows theme system since forever and going thru dozens of themes(visual styles)- dark and light- from deviantart. And no, not braking any system file.


serenescreen marine aquarium still works today imho

I did that too on XP, Vista and 7. Got really annoying to keep on top of with 10 and the bi-annual major updates. Would rather an officially-supported method instead.

 

[er557]

Youv'e got to use a tool like UxTSB (uxtheme signature bypass) from bigmuscle, It's latest version has been working fine for me in between major upgrades, windows updates and it does not brake system files. There's a home brew installer with uninstall support, this is what I stick with, didn't bother with using aero glass as that one is indeed tricky for compatibility
http://virtualcustoms.net/showthread.php/72751-Aero-Glass-for-Windows-10-RS1
look for theme signature bypass in the OP

 

[StrayKAT]

I miss screensavers actually. Maybe I should find some new ones.

 

[robot zombie]

I think it's ridiculous that it's taken so long... ...UI customization in W10 is garbage and I don't understand why. In linux I've used dark themes forever, without modifying anything. Why is it so hard to officially impliment without breaking stuff? I mean, how long has there been talk of a dark W10? Why was it not just there from the beginning lol

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.

 

[StrayKAT]

I think it's ridiculous that it's taken so long... ...UI customization in W10 is garbage and I don't understand why. In linux I've used dark themes forever, without modifying anything. Why is it so hard to officially impliment without breaking stuff? I mean, how long has there been talk of a dark W10? Why was it not just there from the beginning lol

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.

It's not about the technical difficulty.. I mean, they're advanced enough that they can make crazy interfaces like Holo Lens now. It's more about whether it's something they're willing to support. And by support, I mean channeling that support down the line to a whole corpus of documentation, system managers, etc.. And something that can be easily predictable even when one person is just on one end of a phone line, walking people through something. Linux is cool for being a smorgasbord of options, but that's also it's weakness.

 

[Prima.Vera]

They should had better fixed the settings, control pannel settings and other settings, which are in one million different places. I miss older versions of Windows where EVERYTHING was inside Control Panel.

 

[Caring1]

Pretty bad when all the monitors push blue whitepoint so hard to appear the brightest causes the OS vendor to reduce blue.

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.

I chose my current monitor because it had a blue light filter, I tend to get migraines from bright lights.

 

[Mysteoa]

So with this update we will get real dark theme like youtube and Adobe dark ? or just a pitch black ? I'm still on 1709 build but I might go dark and install the latest update if it is the real deal.

You could always join Insiders and test the latest build and then revert back. I did it recently to test the performance in Overwatch, but it still has the problem with only using 60% GPU.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Remember that time back in year 1998 when you could do all this all by yourself in Windows 98? I do. I also used aquarium screensaver. I miss those days.

Right? I feel you, I really do.

I want one compatible with 7/10!

Google search is your friend. There plenty of them out there, some very good.

I try to use as many dark options whenever available. I must not be alone. It's especially more comfort from my TV.

Same here.

 

[BluesFanUK]

That's on firefox and flashgot, not Windows. Firefox 57 and up broke a LOT of older extensions, and many devs aren't bothering to update again because webextensions doesn't have the same level of API functionality that XUL used to have. For methe biggest casualty was Downthemall, but I'll live.

No it's not. Flashgot hasn't been updated in over two years and my Firefox version is still the same (v56). Downloadthemall works fine still.

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.

try this instead, i think you will be pleased.
Flash Video Downloader - YouTube HD Download [4K]

works on pretty much every website there is and even if the video is in a streaming chunks format, it will download it and build into a single file (usually)

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.