Windows 10: Dark explorer backgrounds. Is this possible ? If so how.

I'd like to be able to set the following up but can't seem to just get all the requirements to come together.

1/ A dark (black) explorer background.
( I can get this by choosing a high contrast theme)

2/ To be able to use desktop themes and pictures as normal.
(that seems OK)

Those are really the only two things I want to change and by using high contrast themes I can.

3/ Problem... IE and pages displayed are black background. Is it possible to have 1 and 2 above but IE still display as normal. Also the start menu and tiles are black. Is it possible to retain or customise that separately.

Explorer I could get as a I want, but IE, urhhh *Smile






Thanks in advance *Smile

:)

 

If MS were serious about WP7 they would let us customise like this

I'll will say it again then: If you allow a completely custom background, shadows must be used on the text used on the Live Tiles so that the text remains readable regardless of any background. Without the shadowing on the text, only dark backgrounds could
be used. Look at your link again and look at the Internet Explorer tile. You can't read half of the word "Explorer" due to that part of the Battlefield 3 background being light. Shadows would need to be used there and shadows cost CPU time.

And again, this is the reason why the iPhone 3G did not get the ability to set a custom background when iOS 4 came out: System performance took a major hit when shadows needed to be produced on the text on the home screen.

 

How to change the default background color of webpages on Edge browser in Win 10?

well what they need to do is allow extension, that allow us to change background to dark instead of this horrible blurry white background .. either in edge or word or file explorer.... i really hope they consider moving up to the times . everyone
else have it . the only reason i dont use edg is cause of white background .

 

You should be able to set a new image as desktop background, but not change the theme.
In the browser you could override the system colors. Takes a little playin around to get it just right.

 

Yes I can set a new desktop image and a slideshow all as normal with the high contrast themes.

How would I override the browser settings though. I couldn't find an obvious way to do that.

 

I suppose it's kind of difficult as you would effectively be changing the way the page looks, for forums and the such, you could change to a dark theme, but websites like newspapers or feeds would be difficult as they have their advertisements and the such, is it the same for other browsers?

 

I don't know if other browsers would be affected. I've always used IE though, have kind of grown and got to like it.

 

I've asked over on the Microsoft forums over this and it appears that what I want isn't do-able. The view changes for all explorer windows, IE included.

At least I know now.

 

Hi Mooly, this is Windows explorer (Win 7) using a full theme and I will be applying a full theme to Win 10 final release *Smile

 

That looks good *Smile Does it affect IE though, or does that display as normal ?

 

IE its self yes but web pages no as there outside the system, but the internal system yes





Control panel

 

Hmmm... thanks. I couldn't seem to get anything like that to work in W10. Bing homepage was just a black hole, no picture displayed at all. First picture in this thread shows how this forum looked for me.


I might come back to this problem...


Thanks *Smile

 

Do you have a link for that theme Steph?

 

Yes .. hope I dont get in trouble *Wink Its were I came from to SF > Virtual Customs