Microsoft has finally made the dark theme available

Apr 14, 2015 10:02 GMT  ·  By

After months of testing, Microsoft has finally introduced a dark theme in Windows 10, but for the moment, it’s only available as part of the leaked build 10056.

As you can see in these screenshots, the dark theme doesn’t seem to be complete right now, so Microsoft still has some work to do before rolling it out to all users, which is most likely expected to happen in the next build for users enrolled in the Windows Insider program.

The dark theme, which doesn’t seem to do anything else besides setting black as the main color for the Start menu, the taskbar, and the notification center, is configured by default in Windows 10 build 10056, so you won’t have to turn to registry tweaks or any other tricks to enable it.

Beautiful Start menu

The Start menu is one of the features that fully embrace the dark theme, and at first glance, it really seems to look good, although transparency is barely noticeable with this visual style.

At the same time, the Start screen uses a bigger transparency level, but as compared to the Start menu, live tiles and app shortcuts are easier to spot this time.

The notification center, on the other hand, doesn’t look that good with a dark theme, and it just seems that more refinements are needed, which is absolutely normal, given the fact that Windows 10 is still in development.

The taskbar clock, windows, and context menu do not yet come with a dark theme, but that could change in the coming builds, when Microsoft completes development of more tweaks.

Right now, the dark theme is only available as part of build 10056, so in case you come across something that doesn’t work as it should because of this theme, Microsoft won’t help you fix it because no support is being offered for leaked builds and unofficial releases.

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