Windows 10 has had a display that shows the work environment and apps in dark colors for years. You can activate this mode in the Windows settings, but with the Nightlight app you have a handy switch on the desktop to turn off the light.
Night light 1.1
Price
For free
Language
English
OS
Windows
Website
www.bit.ly/walterlight 6 Score 60 
- Pros
- It couldn’t be simpler
- Negatives
- First install Microsoft.NET 5.0
Nightlight works very simply, the most difficult part is the installation. On the GitHub webpage, in the right column, click Release and then you get to version 1.1. where you put the file release-1.1.0.0.tar downloads. Such a tar file is an archive like .zip, which packages several files. Double click on it to extract it. The result is a folder where you will find the Nightlight application and the file RUN_ME to open the program.
Microsoft .NET 5.0
This tool requires that you have Microsoft.NET 5.0 installed on your system, otherwise it will automatically take you to the correct download page. .NET 5.0 is a development platform that allows certain code to run on your computer. You will find different versions on the linked webpage. Select the 64bit or 32bit version for desktop apps, install it and only then will you notice that Nightlight works.
sun or moon
You can find the Nightlight icon in the notification area of ​​the Windowsdesktop. Clicking the switch with the left mouse button will take you to dark mode and a moon icon will appear. The dark mode will be applied immediately and you will see that all Windows apps have gone dark as well. Click the same button again to go to light mode and see the sun icon.
Start menu and taskbar
With the right mouse button you open the contextual menu and that’s how you get to the settings of Nightlight. There are only two options. Here you determine whether the dark mode only applies to the apps, Windows Explorer and the system windows. That’s the default setting by the way. In addition, you can specify here that the brightness of the Start menu and the taskbar also changes.
Conclusion
Once installed, Nightlight works flawlessly and you wonder why this option isn’t just in Windows 10. Only the installation is a bit cumbersome.
