A dark day for Windows 10.

[gwpriester]

You cannot have a dark taskbar and a light theme. Changing the taskbar theme alters the entire computer.

[Chris M]

You cannot have a dark taskbar and a light theme. Changing the taskbar theme alters the entire computer.

I think what you're looking for is:
Personalise > Colours > Choose Your Colour (Custom) > Choose Windows Mode (Dark) > Choose App Mode (Light)

[gwpriester]

Chris thanks. I have done this. My gripe was Microsoft just determined that the dark theme is the default.

Mary's computer is a HP laptop, and it has it's own issues. I have not had the update yet to my computer.

[handrawn]

windows defaulted to dark theme - there could be several reasons for this

if it took a very long time then it might well of been the update from 1903 to 2004 which is a 'biggie'

the age of the laptop in terms of the latest available drivers, the amount of memory, the speed of the processor, the speed of the SSD/HDD and physical condition of all these may slow things down, as might things running in the background security wise etc

if windows finds it has to make do with less 'space/resource' than it really needs to organise the update it will 'let go' of certain settings and reset - this can also happen if some drivers are not as uptodate as windows would require in regard to the features they provide, even if these drivers are the latest available

this may be what has happened here, it is a lot more common than you might think

it is only a personilisation setting, irritating yes, but nothing to be concerned about

[behzad]

Did you do the feature update to win 10 version 2004? I refuse to install that. I heard many bad things how it will screw up everything.

[gwpriester]

behzad - My wife's computer and mine are set to automatically update. Mine updated the other day bu there were no dark/light issues.

[behzad]

Any benefits with the update? I wish XP 2020 was around LOL

[behzad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS_yBXEV4BE

She looks like she has a windows virus

[wizard509]

My laptop just updated last night and I still have a light theme and dark taskbar.