Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Dark Theme for Windows Outlook and SSMS

 Well Black is the new Red... What can I say.. I think it clears a lot of clutter and you feel focused on the right things. 

Right to the meat. 

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For Switching Dark Mode in Windows 10. Just search for "Dark Theme" in Cortana and you should get the below option 

Just change the present setting to Dark and you should be golden. 


Next Outlook . Goto File->Options->General

Here you will find a setting Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office 


Next SSMS ->

First open a notepad with  "Run as Admin". Then open the file ssms.pkgundef and find the line "Remove Dark Theme". 




You should find the file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE. I have version 18 hence this path you can do a search for the file in "program files (x86) folder". Once you find the line just comment the line with "//" without the quotes as shown in the image below. 

Once done save the file and then open the SSMS. Goto

Tools->Options->Environment->General->Colour Theme-> Dark




So these are the three essential things I needed the black theme for.                                                        
Let know what application you need black theme for.                                                                              


Thanks,                                                                                                                                                        
Tushar