Change Background Of Settings App To A Dark Background

nbb007 · May 27, 2016

Re: How To Change Background Of Settings App To A Dark Background

Followed these steps but no color change occurred. I'm running Windows 10 Home (i'm still not sure why Dell would sell a new i7 laptop with this installed), and a quick internet search finds the following: "We’ve been told the registry change only works on the Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10. it won’t work on the Home edition for some reason." (How to Enable Windows 1’s Hidden Dark Theme).

1) Do you know if this is true, and if so, why?
2) Do you have an alternative method that would work with my version of Windows?
3) Should I just go ahead and upgrade to Windows Pro? I wouldn't mind having bitlocker, but it's somewhat unnecessary since I use Veracrypt. I don't need to join my computer to a domain, and I use alternatives to both RDP and Hyper-V, so I'v never really been able to justify the cost.

Thanks in advance for your help.

EvilClivE · Jul 2, 2016

Re: How To Change Background Of Settings App To A Dark Background

I was just about to open up the Registry... oh I have Win10 Home too. Boooooo.

I wonder if an insider build would work, but probably not.

Tekno Venus · Jul 2, 2016

Re: How To Change Background Of Settings App To A Dark Background

The latest inside builds have a built in dark mode you can turn on in settings.

xilolee · Jul 2, 2016

Re: How To Change Background Of Settings App To A Dark Background

Hi! :smile9:

nbb007 said:
Followed these steps but no color change occurred. I'm running Windows 10 Home (i'm still not sure why Dell would sell a new i7 laptop with this installed), and a quick internet search finds the following: "We’ve been told the registry change only works on the Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10. it won’t work on the Home edition for some reason."(How to Enable Windows 1’s Hidden Dark Theme).

EvilClivE said:
I was just about to open up the Registry... oh I have Win10 Home too. Boooooo.

It worked on my system Win10Homex64.
The computer came originally with windows 8 equipped.
The change was instantaneous, I didn't need to restart either explorer or windows.

:wave:

EvilClivE · Jul 2, 2016

Re: How To Change Background Of Settings App To A Dark Background

Sounds promising xilolee, :) I'm also using Win10homex64 from a Win7 upgrade.

Will give this a go in min :rofl12:

Congratulations on becoming part of Sysnative Staff BTW :)

EvilClivE · Jul 2, 2016

Re: How To Change Background Of Settings App To A Dark Background

Worked fine for me - yay!

And yay for the insider builds too :)

Skyhawk94 · Mar 17, 2018

Perfect for me !

xilolee · Mar 17, 2018

You can also change it in settings, home, personalisation, colours, choose your default app mode: light/dark.
It is probably available since August 2016 in version 1607 ("Anniversary Update" - "Redstone 1").

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