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    Windows 11 Dark Mode Extends to Legacy File Dialogs in Insider Builds

    Windows 11 is quietly closing one of its most visible design gaps: legacy file‑operation dialogs and Explorer pop‑ups are finally gaining a proper dark theme in Insider builds, and the small but important visual refinements landing in recent flights hint at a broader, long‑overdue push to make...
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    Google Labs Windows App: Floating Spotlight Search with Lens & AI

    Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...
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    Practical Windows 11 Dark Mode: A System-Wide, Step-by-Step Guide

    Windows 11’s dark mode finally has a practical, reproducible setup that makes the whole desktop — not just a handful of modern apps — feel cohesive, and the path to get there mixes built‑in settings, small automation tools, and a few targeted third‑party utilities that fill the remaining gaps...
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    Rufus 4.10 Beta: Dark Mode, PCA2023 & 25H2 USB Media

    Rufus’s latest pre-release quietly delivers a handful of practical, user-facing updates — including an official dark mode and early support for the new Windows 11 25H2 boot media format — that matter more than they sound, especially for technicians still migrating fleets from Windows 10 ahead of...
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    Rufus 4.10 Beta Adds Windows 11 25H2 ISO Support and UI Enhancements

    Rufus, the go-to utility for creating bootable USB drives, has a new pre-release floating around that Neowin reports adds explicit support for Windows 11 25H2 ISOs and several convenience and reliability features — but the details matter for IT teams and power users, and not all of the claims...
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    Windows 11 Insider: Blue Progress Bar in Dark Mode File Operations

    Microsoft’s latest Insider activity shows a subtle but telling change: the long‑standing green progress indicator in the File Explorer copy/move dialog has been replaced with a blue variant when the system is in Dark Mode, and several legacy file‑operation dialogs are now honoring the OS dark...
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    Windows 11 Dark Mode updates legacy file dialogs with blue progress bar

    Microsoft’s long‑running UI mismatch — the glaring white or legacy‑colored copy/move progress window that interrupted Dark Mode sessions for years — is finally being updated in Insider builds, and enthusiasts have noticed a small but symbolic tweak: the familiar green progress bar is being...
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    Windows 11: Dark mode now applies to legacy file dialogs in Insider builds

    Microsoft has quietly begun fixing one of Windows 11’s most persistent visual annoyances: the long-neglected file operation (copy/move/delete/permission) dialogs are finally receiving proper dark‑mode styling in Insider preview builds, and the work is rolling out in stages rather than as a...
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    Windows 10 Light Mode: A System-Wide Bright Theme for Shell and Apps

    Microsoft’s long-running flirtation with theme options in Windows has taken a decisive, system-wide turn: Windows 10’s Light Mode moves beyond the piecemeal light accents of earlier releases and applies a unified, pale palette across the system shell — including the Start menu, taskbar, Action...
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    PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto-switch Light and Dark on Windows 11

    Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to plug one of Windows 11’s most persistent annoyances: a built‑in way to automatically switch between Light and Dark modes on a user-defined schedule — delivered as a PowerToys module rather than via the core Settings app. Background / Overview For years Windows...
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    PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto Light/Dark Theme Switching for Windows 11

    Microsoft’s quietly popular PowerToys is about to solve one of Windows 11’s longest-running little annoyances: automatic theme switching. The PowerToys v0.94 release confirmed a planned follow-up (v0.95) that will include a Theme Scheduler capable of switching Windows between Light and Dark...
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    PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto Light/Dark Switching for Windows 11

    Microsoft’s PowerToys team has quietly moved to fill a conspicuous gap in Windows’ personalization features: beginning with PowerToys v0.94 the project teased a scheduled automatic theme switching utility that will let Windows switch between light and dark modes on a timetable — a capability...
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    Windows 11 August 2025 Update: On-device AI, Copilot, and Admin Guidance

    August closed out with a busy month for Windows 11: Microsoft shipped the August Patch Tuesday rollups and an optional non‑security preview that together folded in a mix of productivity‑focused on‑device AI, UI polishing, enterprise housekeeping, and several reliability and recovery improvements...
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    Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27934: Canary fixes and Reset regression

    Microsoft pushed a small-but-significant Canary-channel preview on August 29, 2025, when Windows Insiders received Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27934, a focused flight that fixes several user-facing stability issues while adding an important caution for anyone relying on built‑in recovery...
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    Windows 11 Insider Build 26120.5761: Beta Channel AI, UI polish, staged rollout

    Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5761 (KB5064093) to the Beta Channel for Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2, continuing a pattern of incremental, tightly staged updates that blend UI polish, targeted bug fixes, and guarded rollouts of AI-driven experiences...
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    Windows 11 Dark Mode Goes Coherent: Dark Dialogs and a Black Screen Crash

    After nearly a decade of half-finished theming work, Windows 11’s Dark Mode finally begins to behave like a coherent system feature: preview builds now render many of the long‑standing white “flashbang” file‑operation dialogs in dark chrome, while Microsoft simultaneously adjusts the platform’s...
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    Windows 11 Dark Mode Gains Real Dialog Darkening in Staged Release Preview

    Microsoft’s long‑running dark‑mode problem is beginning to look less like an unfinished promise and more like a deliberate, staged repair: recent Windows Insider and Release Preview builds contain code that darkens a cluster of previously glaring white file‑operation dialogs, and community...
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    Windows 11 September 2025 Update: Staged AI Features & Copilot+ Rollout

    Microsoft is preparing a substantial set of Windows 11 feature updates that start arriving in staged preview channels now and should reach general users in the weeks ahead, bringing a mix of practical quality‑of‑life fixes, broader UI polish and an expanded set of AI-driven tools—some of which...
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    Windows 11 dark mode expands to File Explorer dialogs in Insider builds

    Windows 11’s long-fractured dark mode has taken a tangible step toward cohesion: recent Insider Beta and Dev builds quietly include dark-themed File Explorer dialog boxes, and community testers can already surface them with third‑party tooling. This is the most visible sign yet that Microsoft is...
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    Windows 11 Dark Mode extends to legacy file dialogs in Insider builds

    Microsoft has quietly begun fixing one of Windows 11’s most conspicuous usability sins: long‑neglected file‑operation dialogs that forced bright white “flashbang” popups into Dark Mode are now rendering with dark chrome in Insider preview builds, and the underlying code is rolling out in the...
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