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I'm running windows 10, and I don't like the changes that are in the "fluent UI refresh" for visual studio 2022, and want to go back to how they used to be. I don't know what has caused this. The thing I want to undo looks like this: enter image description here

The thing I had before, and want to go back to looks like this: enter image description here

How do I remove and permanently block this change?

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In this case, the theme isn't part of Windows or any Windows component – it's part of the program itself. Probably the majority of UI components used by Visual Studio's main UI (tabs, toolbars, buttons, etc.) is either tailor-made for VS or has its UI style defined by VS, so its appearance will change if a VS update is released that changes the way those components are implemented, regardless of anything Windows does. Generally this is not something you can configure or revert in any way (except by downgrading the entire program to a previous version). The same also applies to all major web browsers, as well as every single app built on Electron (such as Discord or VSCode).

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It would have been nice if they would have listed this in whats new or something. I found an option to disable these changes. Its still really odd that I have the same version of vs2022 on two machines one which has this change, and the other does not. I'm still presuming this comes though windows update on a system level. enter image description here

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    Visual Studio is never updated through Windows Update.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 18:24
  • @Ramhound Visual Studio might not be, but it does use dll files from the system, which can be, and are updated though windows update, does it not? Otherwise, what other explanation can be offered for having these changes on one system, but yet not available on another, when VS is the same version on both systems?
    – gattsbr
    Commented Oct 26, 2023 at 19:46
  • This feature has been pushed to 17.10 Preview and is not available in 17.9 RTM (in which Preview it was originally introduced). This has nothing to do with system files or Windows Update.
    – Ray
    Commented May 9 at 16:26

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