As you may already know, Microsoft is going to add a new dark theme to File Explorer in Windows 10. It can already be activated in Windows 10 Build 17650, which was recently released to Skip Ahead insiders. If you would like to enable it right now and see the work in progress, here's how it can be done.

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Microsoft has added the dark theme to the classic desktop app File Explorer in Windows 10 "Redstone 5". Recent builds of the OS incude the dark theme for File Explorer which can be enabled in the Settings app. Here is how it looks:

Enabling dark mode in File Explorer is possible using an option in the Settings app, which switches the app theme under Personalization -> Color. Unlike many Store (UWP) apps, File Explorer hasn't a dedicated option to turn on the dark theme separately from Settings. It follows the global option. Many of the first-party apps in Windows 10 follow the system option or have their own options for enabling the dark theme.

To enable the dark theme in File Explorer in Windows 10, do the following.

Open the Settings app. Go to Personalization -> Colors: Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the option "Choose your default app mode". There, turn on the Dark option to activate the appropriate color scheme. The dark theme is now enabled.

In older pre-release builds of Windows 10 the dark theme was locked. The instructions below could be used to unlock it using a third-party tool Mach2.

Enable Dark Theme in File Explorer in Windows 10

You are done!

To activate the theme,

Open Settings. Navigate to Personalization -> Colors. On the right, select the option Dark under Choose your default app mode.

I hope this will save you some time.

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