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How do I change my system so it shows apps, title bars, etc in dark grey?

Anonymous
2023-08-03T21:28:00+00:00

There was some system update last night and now I seem to be only able to pick between white and black modes, both of which I find very hard on the eyes. I have tried looking at "Colours" and "Themes" in the setting, but none of those say how I can change back to the old colour scheme that was much better.

I've also searched online, and people seem to be saying it can't be done, but that can't be right.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-03T22:32:24+00:00

    Thank you for the suggestion, however that seems to be for people who have difficulty distinguishing colours. I just find the existing themes way too glaring.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-03T22:07:12+00:00

    Hello Tracy, this is Emily.

    I wonder if you might mean color filters in this case.

    If you are using Windows 10 you will go to Settings > Ease of Access > Color filters.

    If you are using Windows 11, go to Settings > Accesssibility > Color filters. And you will have more options here than the one in Windows 10. So it makes me wonder if you might be actually using Windows 11.

    Take a look and see if that's what you referred to.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-04T02:49:22+00:00

    No, the colour scheme is still glaring.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-04T01:02:12+00:00

    For an example, yesterday in MS Outlook, the reading pane area (circled) was a nice light-grey colour, now it is bright white and I can't work out how to get it back to that.

    I'm pretty sure I had a theme in which I'd specified the colours I wanted.

    I am now managing by adjusting the settings on my monitor but I move desks quite a bit, and it will be frustrating to adjust this all the time. Also, sometimes I do work with graphics and I am worried that I will forget I adjusted the monitor settings and thus get a distorted picture.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-03T22:35:31+00:00

    I see. Perhaps we are not using the same lingo here. Windows always has only light and dark modes only. There wasn't a gray mode. When you said gray, to us, that's the color filters. But to you, it was perhaps a different theme? Did you have different desktop background images back then too? Or the background images are still the same but the brightess is just too bright? I guess I will need more information before I can figure out which feature might have changed.. could it be theme, or simply accent color settings, or perhaps nightlight feature?

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