![]() ![]() You can also click the ‘Browse themes’ button to get more from the Microsoft Store. There will likely be a few options there already. To do that, open the Settings app > Personalization > Themes. This gives you more flexibility since you can use either the included Windows 11 themes, download new themes or build your own. That said, I think the best way to use Auto Dark Mode is still to switch between themes. That doesn’t appear necessary anymore, with all of the Windows 11 themes showing up properly in the app for me now. Instead, the optimal solution for me was to create a ‘Light’ Windows theme and a ‘Dark’ Windows theme and then use Auto Dark Mode to switch between those. When I first set up Auto Dark Mode in Windows 11, I found it didn’t quite work right with using the built-in system toggle or with any of Microsoft’s built-in Windows themes. The first ‘Pick a wallpaper’ option allows you to assign a wallpaper for light and dark modes. When I used Auto Dark Mode on Windows 10, it would change the built-in Windows dark mode switcher. This might be the most important part of the app. You can configure Dark Reader to follow system settings, which means you can automate it with this tool too. Some of these options won’t matter if you use a Windows Theme (we’ll get into that a little more below).įinally, this section includes a link to download the Dark Reader browser extension, which converts websites to dark theme. Interestingly, there are also controls for changing Microsoft Office apps specifically. From here, users can choose whether to have apps and the system follow the system theme or do their own thing. ![]() The apps section includes controls for app and system behaviour when switching themes. ![]() Similarly, there’s an option to automatically enable dark mode on a battery-powered device when it’s unplugged, which could be helpful in saving power on devices with an OLED screen. On a few occasions, I’ve experienced pretty extreme lag because my PC switched from light mode to dark mode while I was in a game. If you game a lot, I’d recommend toggling this option on because I’ve found that Windows hits the GPU pretty hard when doing the switch. First, there’s an option to prevent switching while gaming. This section includes some options to prevent the switch between light and dark mode if certain conditions are met. However, you can also set Auto Dark Mode to change with sunset and sunrise. I ran with the custom hours section and basically set my computer to stay in light mode while I’m working and switch to dark mode after I finish work. The Time section is all about setting when you want your PC to switch between modes. When you open the Auto Dark Mode app, there are five main options in the menu, so we’re going to run through them in order. Once everything is set up, you’re good to start automating your dark mode. I’ve been running the app for weeks without issue, but if you’re really concerned you can also download a Microsoft-verified version of the app directly through the Windows Store if you’re running Windows 11 (unfortunately, I can’t link to a Microsoft Store page so you’ll have to open the Store app and search for it yourself). Windows may show a warning about installing the software (the developer notes on the README page that it’s because of a missing signature licence). ![]() Once downloaded, run the setup file provided (it’s a ‘.exe’). To start, download Windows Auto Dark Mode from GitHub ( click this link and scroll down to the ‘README’ file, then click ‘Download’). Before we go much further, most of this should apply to Windows 10 too - if you want to automate dark mode on your Windows 10 PC, these steps should work too. Windows Auto Dark mode, however, is free and offers a lot of customizability (plus, it already supports Windows 11). My app of choice is ‘Windows Auto Dark Mode,’ but there are other solutions out there too. ![]()
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