README.md

Aero.msstyles-win32-darkmode

Aero.msstyles win32-darkmode toolbar button fix for Windows 11.

This Aero.msstyles theme is only a temporary workaround for users of Explorer++, Notepad++, LibreOffice and any other app that utilizes win32-darkmode and is affected by the blue-hinted toolbar button highlighting on Windows 11 only.

This is for users who still want the default Aero dark theme from Microsoft but with a fix for the toolbar button highlighting.

This is official Aero.msstyles from Windows 11 and the only modification is the one resource that is responsible for toolbar button highlighting.

This will not mess with your existing Aero theme or modify system files.

Examples of the issue:

• notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#10510
• derceg/explorerplusplus#115 (comment)
• https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152534

Before:

After:

Usage:

• the archive needs to be extracted to: C:\Windows\Resources\Themes
• run the included ThemeTool.exe as Admin
• click Install to install the theme patcher
• restart your system
• run ThemeTool.exe again (you don't need Admin this time)
• select aero11 theme and press Apply

If you use Windows built-in archive extraction, the archive contents get nested further in an additional aero11 subfolder. In that case, copy the contents from within that folder.

Directory Structure:

C:.
└───Windows
    └───Resources
        └───Themes
            │   aero11.theme
            │
            └───aero11
                │   aero.msstyles
                │
                ├───en-US
                │       aero.msstyles.mui
                │
                ├───Shell
                │   └───NormalColor
                │       │   shellstyle.dll
                │       │
                │       └───en-US
                │               shellstyle.dll.mui
                │
                └───VSCache