In order to see the changes you just have to reboot or log out and then log back in.

Step 5: Log Out and Log Back In to Windows 10 (If the ' Personalize' folder doesn’t exist in your registry, you can create it by right-clicking on the 'Themes' folder, selecting New > Key and naming it to Personalize) Navigate to the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Themes > Personalize Step 4: Navigate to a Different Path and Repeat Step 3 (Note that in earlier builds of Windows 10 this DWORD was named SystemUsesLightTheme, but in the final version this was changed to AppsUseLightTheme). Rename the DWORD to AppsUseLightTheme and leave its value as is (0). This DWORD will be named as New Value #1 and will have a default value of 0. In the current folder, right-click anywhere on the blank space on the right part of the window (where the folder’s contents are displayed) and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Note that you need admin rights for this, since you are going to fiddle with registry keys.įrom the sidebar located on the left side of the Registry Editor, navigate to the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Themes > Personalize If you have a third-party Registry Editor installed too, then you can use whichever one you want- it doesn’t matter since the procedure is the same.

Simply open the Run dialog box by hitting Win + R ('Win' is the Windows button in your keyboard), type ' regedit' (without quotes) in the textbox and hit Enter. The first step is to open the Registry Editor. So, let’s see the manual way of enabling Dark Theme in Windows 10: Enabling the Dark Theme in Windows 10 Manually You can use these if you are not very confident when editing registry files. If you want the ultra-easy way to do it, I provide two registry files at the bottom of the article which are used for enabling/disabling the Dark Teme. In this article I’m going to provide you with simple and cleat instructions on how to enable the built-in Dark Theme in Windows 10, as well as how to disable it. Now my Windows 10 OS looks really cool and I certainly don’t regret applying this theme (although I might change it to a custom one in a few days, since I don’t have a very consistent taste). I was actually surprised to find out that Windows 10 has had a hidden built-in theme in its builds for some time now, that is known as ' Dark Theme' or ' Dark Mode', but it did not make it to the settings in the official Windows 10 release. I started looking for instructions on how to enable it and it turned out it was very easy to do so, therefore I didn’t spend a second thinking this twice and followed the steps to enable it.

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