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With the rising trend of customization among Windows enthusiasts, especially in Windows 11, many users are seeking ways to personalize their interface further than just the default dark mode. A common request among users is for a completely black Start menu and taskbar. While Microsoft does...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR Windows Insiders will notice that the name of the branch we are releasing builds from has changed to NI_RELEASE. The branch in which we release builds from to Insiders in the Dev...

There isn’t much you can’t do with web technologies nowadays. The web platform has evolved so much that such diverse things as animating elements, playing or recording media, accessing files or storage, intercepting network requests and accessing the cache, making complex CSS layouts, or writing...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21376 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 21376 Updated Segoe UI font We are introducing Segoe UI Variable which includes an optical axis so that font outlines can scale seamlessly from small...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20262 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Fixes We fixed an issue resulting in certain apps launching unexpectedly transparent in recent builds, with no content visible. We fixed an issue where old...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20170 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. PLEASE NOTE: Windows Insiders with PCs that have AMD processors will not be offered this build today due to a bug impacting overall usability of these PCs. The issue...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19002 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. IMPORTANT: As is normal with pre-release builds, these builds may contain bugs that might be painful for some. If you take this flight, you won’t be able to switch...

I am still trying to get to know all the features it has and how to us them. It comes with four themes. This dark one matches the dark theme I'm running in Win10 build 1809.

I just installed Windows 10 Home on my PC and left it to get updated. After sometime when I checked it showed no updates available and it was updated to build 1803. But when I enabled dark theme it wasn't applied to Explorer. How can I enable it? Every suggestions are appreciated...

We’re excited to announce the preview release of the Fluent XAML Theme Editor application! As some of you may remember from our Build 2018 session this year, we previewed a tool using our new ColorPaletteResources API that allows you to set the color theme of your app through some simple color...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18234 (19H1) to Windows Insiders who have opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 18234 Microsoft To-Do gets ink support! Capture and complete your tasks naturally with Ink! We’ve added support for...

Hi I have Windows showing the dark theme but I'd like to set Skype to the normal appearance as it was until a recent update. I'm pretty sure there is someplace that you can choose which appearance you want but I can't find it. Anyone have any ideas? Mike

Hi I was talking to a friend today and I wanted to switch my desktop back to the normal theme, so I was seeing what he was seeing, but I've been using the dark theme so long I don't remember how to get it to change? So that's the question how do you switch back and forth? Mike

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17666 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring in addition to those who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17666 The next wave of Sets improvements is here! We’ve been steadily going through your...

Hello everybody! I just got my custom PC upgraded to Windows 10 version 1709 from 1703, and what really bothers me is the Cortana Search bar in my taskbar. It used to be a lighter shade of my accent color earlier, and looked less distracting. Now, its dazzling white, looks like it pops out of...

We are excited to announce a preview version of a brand new WinDbg. We’ve updated WinDbg to have more modern visuals, faster windows, a full-fledged scripting experience, built with the easily extensible debugger data model front and center. I’ll start this by saying that WinDbg Preview is using...

Windows 10 is packed full of features that will help you be more productive and have fun. With Windows 10, you have your very own digital personal assistant in Link Removed, who you can count on to help you find things, complete tasks, set reminders and work across your devices more...

As Windows 10 matures we are seeing more choices on what theme ( colour) you want to run your application in. This is a very short tutorial as the changes are relatively easy to make. The windows 10 Mail application can be changed by following the arrows in the screenshot below: The Edge...

There's a new theme in town. Office 2016 offers a Dark Gray theme that can help alleviate eyestrain. read more Continue reading...

I've been working on this Reddit app for Windows 8. I call it Redditopia. It started as a quick weekend project to teach myself the WinRT programming model. But after I bought my first tablet(Surface RT), I kept craving that one more feature and have now spent more weekends(and nights) on this...