How to Use a Dark Theme for (Almost) Everything in Windows 10

Did You Know? In 1980s and 1990s U.S. politics, the term “Atari Democrat” was applied to young, liberal, and technology focused legislators who suggested the support and development of technology sectors would stimulate the economy. Geek Trivia The Highest Concentration Of Unique Mammals Is Found In? The Galapagos Islands → Australia → Madagascar → The Philippines → Advertisement Download Security Now: Essentials for IT Defense (eBook Kit, a $50 Value) Kit includes "Securing the Virtual Environment" plus 3 other resources to help you understand the virtual environment and IT security. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Open a Specific Set of Webpages When You Start Your Browser How to Rename and Remove Kindle Devices on your Amazon Account How to Use a Dark Theme for (Almost) Everything in Windows 10 How Does the Run Dialog Know Where Applications Are? The Best Animations You Can Make with Philips Hue Quick Tip: You Can Move and Rename macOS Documents from the Title Bar How to Uninstall an iOS App You Can’t Find on the Home Screen How to Make Windows 10 Accept File Paths Over 260 Characters How to Set Your Default Location for Windows 10 Apps How to Use Your Free Windows 10 License After Changing Your PC's Hardware Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Twiplomacy Twiplomacy (a.k.a. Twitter Diplomacy and Hashtag Diplomacy) refers to the use of Twitter by government leaders, officials, and agencies as a way to engage and interact with the general public. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Joys of Noise The reliability of some technologies depends on just the right amount of randomness. [Nautilus] Self-Driving Cars Will Improve Our Cities. If They Don't Ruin Them. This excellent long form article details what we have to overcome to successfully integrate automated cars into our cities (and how awful it will be if we fail at that task). [Backchannel] We finally know who forged Piltdown Man, one of science's most notorious hoaxes The inside history of one of the biggest scientific hoaxes of the 20th century (and certainly the biggest hoax in the field of anthropology). [The Washington Post] A Visual Guide to How Terribly the World's Best Human Athletes Fare Versus Most Average Animals Usain Bolt might be the fastest man alive, but an average warthog could probably take him. [Atlas Obscura] How to Open a Specific Set of Webpages When You Start Your Browser If you have certain webpages that you visit every time you open your browser, you can save time by having them automatically open when you start your browser. We'll show you how to set this up in the five most popular browsers. Read This Article → How to Rename and Remove Kindle Devices on your Amazon Account If you’ve used Kindle devices or apps for a while, you know how easy it is for old devices to accumulate on your list. Why not make things easier on yourself by clearing out old devices and better organizing the ones you still use? Read This Article → How to Use a Dark Theme for (Almost) Everything in Windows 10 With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Microsoft now offers a dark theme–known as “dark mode”. This option was previously hidden and could only be enabled with a registry hack. Now, it’s a simple toggle. Read This Article → How Does the Run Dialog Know Where Applications Are? The Run Dialog can serve as an easy and very useful way to open programs on your computer, but just how does it know where those applications are located at on your system? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → The Best Animations You Can Make with Philips Hue Philips Hue bulbs make it easy and convenient to turn on and off your lights, thanks to the ability to control them from your smartphone wherever you are. However, you can also use your Philips Hue lights to make really cool flashing animations to step up your house party game. Read This Article → Quick Tip: You Can Move and Rename macOS Documents from the Title Bar If you’ve been using a Mac since OS X Mountain Lion, you might have noticed that some documents can be renamed directly from the title bar. This has actually gotten more powerful with successive OS X releases. Read This Article → How to Uninstall an iOS App You Can’t Find on the Home Screen There's an app you want to uninstall, but you can't find it on your Home screen. If the icon appears to have disappeared, how are you supposed to uninstall the app? Don't panic. There is another way. Read This Article → How to Make Windows 10 Accept File Paths Over 260 Characters With the Anniversary Update of Windows 10, you can finally abandon the 260 character maximum path limit in Windows. You just need to make a minor edit to the Windows Registry or Group Policy. Here’s how to make it happen. Read This Article → How to Set Your Default Location for Windows 10 Apps Windows 10 can find your device’s location in a variety of ways, often by examining nearby Wi-Fi networks. But this doesn’t always work well, especially on desktop PCs. That’s why Windows 10 offers a way to set a “default location” that is reported to apps if it can’t get a solid read on your location. Read This Article → How to Use Your Free Windows 10 License After Changing Your PC's Hardware The free Windows 10 license you receive is tied to your PC’s hardware. You’re still allowed to use Windows 10 on that same PC even after changing its hardware. Activating that license is easier than ever in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Security Now: Essentials for IT Defense (eBook Kit, a $50 Value) Kit includes "Securing the Virtual Environment" plus 3 other resources to help you understand the virtual environment and IT security. Click here to download