dark mode Is there a way to make a 10+ year old Windows app work in dark mode?

[GreenBeanz]

I have an app which I'm running on Windows 10 which is quite old. It is called TuneLab 97 and I sometimes need to use it for long periods at a stretch. 

 

Is there a way to make it display in dark mode so as to make it more comfortable on the eyes? Obviously there is no built-in option to do this, and the Windows OS dark mode options are of no help. It would be good ideally if the program always started in dark mode every time I open it.

[kirashi]

36 minutes ago, GreenBeanz said:

I have an app which I'm running on Windows 10 which is quite old. It is called TuneLab 97 and I sometimes need to use it for long periods at a stretch. 

 

Is there a way to make it display in dark mode so as to make it more comfortable on the eyes? Obviously there is no built-in option to do this, and the Windows OS dark mode options are of no help. It would be good ideally if the program always started in dark mode every time I open it.

The developer would need to compile the software with support for modern Windows OS themes. Given the name "TuneLab 97" I'm guessing this software is ancient, thus was probably never developed when dark / light mode was a thing within modern Windows OS's.

 

If the developer doesn't wish to update their app and you've no other alternative, you may be able to invert the colors of a single app as a workaround.

https://superuser.com/questions/657653/win7-invert-colors-of-one-specific-window

[Expicdar]

I have a similar situation with an older app and use something called 'dark mode any app'. It works - I did also try some other solutions such as the negative thingy but it wasn't very user friendly. Give the dark mode any app thing a try. You can use a key macro to switch your apps dark / normal and it remembers which ones you would like to be dark, so you don't need to keep inverting them.