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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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.
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Windows 11’s dark theme has been a work in progress for years; this week’s Insider activity shows Microsoft quietly closing one of the more glaring gaps by pushing dark-mode treatment to additional file operation dialogs — but the rollout is partial, fragile, and currently only reachable to...