Windows Nocturnal Computing Problem

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  1. Jordan Wise

    Jordan Wise Baby called to see the boss...

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    Problem :
    Want to use my computer at night, in the dark, but not get dazzled by the screen. Black text on a white background irritates me beyond belief in the early hours as I'm always squinting when looking from a dark background on one screen to a bright one on the next (I have 2). I don't know why all programs don't have dark backgrounds with white text, like Spotify and Steam do. I realise that there's no changing websites, but if just the general background colour for windows and text I think it'll carry on through other programs, such as Eclipse and Notepad++ (which i use a lot more than most things) could be changed they please, tell me how and I'll be eternally in your debt.

    From my own research I found that there is a program called Nocturne that can do this, but only on Macs:wallbash:, I couldn't find a PC version.

    Is there any way it can be done using Windows alone (Vista Ultimate 64 bit)
     
  2. Burnout21

    Burnout21 Mmmm biscuits

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    easier method, buy a lamp 5w or something just to light the area a little.
     
  3. gnutonian

    gnutonian What's a Dremel?

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    Can't you make a second theme with dark backgrounds? I'm thinking about Windows XP here, but in the appearance settings (when you right-click the desktop and click "Properties") I remember the first tab being themes you could pick/save, and in another tab you could change the colours to a pretty "advanced" level (for MS Windows anyway). I remember it including background colours of applications as well.

    I'm not sure how helpful this is as my memory is a bit hazy and I have no idea about Vista, but it may be worth to have a look? If it works, it's a few minutes to get it the way you like and hours of no squinting :)
     
  4. Jordan Wise

    Jordan Wise Baby called to see the boss...

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    No room on the desk and no free sockets for lamps. Besides, I want darkness.

    I've tried looking in the themes and background colour business in control panel, got nothing so far. I'm wondering if theres a way of doing this from deeper within windows, like something into command line that will change it throughout windows, as I think the Mac had a solution like that, based on the CLI

    Cheers for the fast responses though
     
  5. Digitalize-

    Digitalize- What's a Dremel?

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    Just turn on a High Contrast Theme, there is one thats black white and purple i think.
     
  6. Jordan Wise

    Jordan Wise Baby called to see the boss...

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    I've tried that, quite good but doesn't turn all characters, only letters. I need the characters changing too or it's impossible to write code.

    Does anyone know if Windows 7 has a solution?
     
  7. Cerberus90

    Cerberus90 Car Spannerer

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    Try this.

    Right click desktop > Personalize > Window Colour and Appearance > Open Classic appearance properties > Advanced.

    Thats the thing Impreium is on about I think. I'm pretty sure it carries through most apps if you change the right things, but IIRC it doesn't effect interweb.
     
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  8. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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  9. Zoon

    Zoon Hunting Wabbits since the 80s

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    For web related colour changing-ness, Firefox and Styler will work. Just have it set your body to black and font to white, or vice versa!
     

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