How can I make Photoshop menus dark?

Question

Photoshop menus are white:

Even with dark mode on:

I also use Win10 native dark mode:

How can I make Photoshop menus dark?

Answer 1

You probably have to find something like win7 Window Color and Appearance and tweak the windows dark mode including also the menu and other parts.

Here you should be able to tweak the colors as needed. If even this doesn't help my only idea is to tweak some undocumented registry key as usual happens in windows environment -_-'

Answer 2

Reddit user CreeDorofl pointed me to the following solution:

It turns out photoshop respects an ancient Windows setting for customizing your window and menu colors, even though that option isn't available anymore in windows 10 or 11. You can still change the colors through the registry, or through a little freeware tool.

Tool can be downloaded here: https://www.wintools.info/index.php/classic-color-panel

The colors you want to change are listed as "menu" and "menutext". All the tool does really is modify certain registry settings. If you're comfortable with the registry, run regedit and navigate here (you can copy and paste this path into the nav bar up top):

Computer\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Colors

In the pane on the right you'll see various keys, representing UI elements that can be recolored. Most of them (seemingly) won't work because Windows 10 puts a new custom interface on top of all the old menus. But photoshop's white menu will be affected. Double click the "menu" key on the right, and change it to whatever you want. the format is RGB numbers between 0 and 255, separated by a space. Examples:
40 40 40 = Very dark gray.
255 0 0 = pure red.
etc.

You will also want to change the menu text color from black to white, or at least something light.

Screenshot of the registry settings I used: https://i.sstatic.net/FHeBE.png