Windows 10: Microsoft reveals final look of Dark Theme in File Explorer for Windows 10

Microsoft today announced a new preview build for the Windows Insiders and it comes with a revamped File Explorer that features the highly anticipated dark theme. Microsoft says that Dark Theme support for File Explorer is ready for the next major release of Windows, codenamed Redstone 5.

In the latest Windows 10 Build 17733, the dark UI for File Explorer is now live and it has been finalized for the general public release. You would need to open Settings and navigate to Personalization > Colors -> select the Dark option under the “Choose your app mode” section to apply dark theme in File Explorer.

Microsoft says that the dark theme in File Explorer was a highly requested feature but Microsoft delayed it due to technical issues.

“Here’s why: compared to modern parts of Windows, File Explorer was a whole different beast. While dark mode can be applied to modern XAML components in Windows quite easily, File Explorer contains legacy UI frameworks which don’t plug into that infrastructure automatically. With File Explorer, we were literally breaking new ground to provide a dark theme to legacy parts of the shell. We also needed to be careful to only change File Explorer (and the Common File Dialog) and not change common controls generally, which could break a lot of app experiences (such as making dark text in an app unreadable),” Microsoft explains.

The dark theme in File Explorer was initially ugly but it has evolved before the public. For example, Microsoft added grey colour to areas like the view pane, adjusted the address bar and ribbon colors.

For those unfamiliar, Windows 10 Redstone 5 is expected to arrive in the month of October later this year.

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Dark Theme is not enabling in File Explorer

Hi Nil, that option i currently not available in Windows 10

Microsoft are working on giving us more theming options, in the large update later this year we will get those options, and that includes a dark theme for Windows File Explorer . . .

Here is the Microsoft Preview of that File Explorer theme:

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer renamed to Windows Internet Explorer ?




Since version 7 of the world`s most popular web browser - Microsoft Internet Explorer was silently renamed to Windows Internet Explorer.Such a step from Microsoft is not a surprise since Internet Explorer is part of the Windows operation system for a long time.Obviously Microsoft corp. wants to state that Internet Explorer is already considered as a part of Windows and not as an external browser (remember the IE and WMP law issues last year!?).

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.