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Paul Thurrott (11:14)

All right, welcome back. So in addition to this new front end, you can see the new here there is a new tool which I have been using as soon as I found out about it. And you can see it's going bright because that's what this thing does. So if you're familiar with how Windows works today, you know that we have. Let me bring up settings here. We have capabilities tied to the display, like night light. Right. And so night light is this thing. It's actually on here, but I can turn it on schedule. And the way that this works is it will. Or it will color the screen a little bit orange, which you can't actually see unfortunately in the recording, but from whatever set hours you want or from sunset to sunrise. Right. And that's how I usually set that up. It's pretty cool. And if you go into personalize, we have this colors interface and you have three choices Here, so you have dark mode, light mode. Right. So we can put it back in dark mode and custom and custom is just a way to have a different setting for both windows and then the apps that are running. So I could have windows and dark or apps and light or whatever. So you can see this taskbar down here, still dark, but the app itself is light. Right. So unfortunately it doesn't have an automatic setting. There's no way to do a sunset, the sunrise or whatever. The best we can get is if you go to the home page here. This is one of the settings that's almost for me at least, is always here. So you can launch settings, you know, Windows key +I, it's scroll down a little bit and we can switch it right here. You could do that if you really know what you're doing. I have a shortcut somewhere in my file system for double clicking and it just goes right to that page. And settings, you could do that kind of thing I guess as well. But light switch is what makes this happen automatically. So it's like night light but for dark and light mode.

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Paul Thurrott (13:03)

So it's not set this way by default. It's actually manual and you can enter the times. But I want it to be sunrise or sunset. To sunrise, it will ask you at the time. I've already done it, but it'll ask you to set your location. So if I click that now, it's going to look at where I am. I'm in Mexico City. So it's going to come up with some sort of a latitude, longitude kind of a deal here. And as I record this, the sun rises here at 6:30am we're pretty close to the equator, so these things, this doesn't change too much. But sunset is at 6:12. Now, of course, if you're, you know where I was in Boston or in Pennsylvania or at some other part of the globe, these things could be quite different. Right. And so we'll keep track of that, which is really good. And you can do an offset, which is actually kind of awesome. Right. So you might not want it to go to dark mode immediately. When the sun sets, there's still ambient light in the sky, etc. You might want it to be 30 minutes later and you can set that here. So that's really neat. They also have this capability to do different settings for system and apps, which is that Windows and app setting that we start in the Settings app. Right. And so I don't do that, but I want everything dark or everything light. But they let you do that here. So this thing, you know, PowerToys, runs when your computer starts up. So this thing will always be running. It's not taking up a lot of space, it's not taking up a lot of resources, et cetera, but this thing runs in the background. And now it works the way Windows should work. And it's hard to imagine this thing not becoming part of Windows in the future. I am going to temporarily turn this off because this thing is blinding me. When I record, I don't like to have the screen on light mode, although I do use it that way normally during the day, but night mode at night. So now it works the way I want it to work. It's cool. The one thing it doesn't fix, by the way, is one of the other weird problems with dark mode in Windows is certain interfaces, classic interfaces, are always going to be in light mode, even if you're in dark mode, right? So the screen's in dark mode. If I open options here, this is white, right? It's not doing the dark mode thing. I have a bunch of big videos here. If I just to get a file copy going. If I were to start these things copying, you'll see this progress dialog. I'll just pause that because we're going to stop it. But as you can see, this thing is in light mode and that's not what you want. Microsoft is in fact updating Windows 11 to make at least some of those interfaces support dark mode accurately. Right? So that I know the file progress is one of those. So when that happens, we'll talk about that as it happens. But that's in the works. It is happening. But if you're running 24 or 25H2, you can look forward to that. And then otherwise you should still get this. Get powertrays, if only full light switch. Because it's. This is so necessary. I can't believe this isn't part of Windows. But, you know, that's what we get. Alrighty. Well, I hope you found this useful. We will have a new episode of Hands on Windows every Thursday. You can find out more at Twitter tv. How. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you especially to our Club Twit members. We love you. If you're not a member of Club Twit, please consider it. Support the channel and all the content creators and you can learn more about that at Twitt tv. Club Twit, thank you so much. See you next week.