RobertJSawyer

Yay! I'm so glad we got it working for you, Ivanka! Happy Holidays! Rob (in Toronto)

I agree with @jefito. Are you sure you have closed the Evernote app? Not just closed the Evernote program window, but right-clicked on the little Evernote icon in the system tray, and selecting "Quit Evernote." If that doesn't do the trick, then the question is whether you have administrator privileges (if it's your own home computer, you should). We're getting close to having this solved!

Thanks, @dconnet! I've updated my post.

Hi, Ivanka. 1) Your Evernote program is really called Evernote.exe, just like everyone else's. It's true that Windows suppresses the file extension of what it calls "known file types" in its graphical user interface, but at the command line you MUST use the real file name. And the patch works just fine on Windows 10. 2) YOU ARE NOT EXECUTING THE COMMAND FROM THE RIGHT FOLDER. You have to first navigate from the command prompt to where your copy of Evernote.exe is located. It's likely in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote or C:\Program Files\Evernote\Evernote (That is, it's in the Evernote folder beneath ANOTHER folder ALSO named Evernote.) You can find out for sure where your Evernote.exe is located by right-clicking on the Evernote icon, then selecting properties, then the "Shortcut" tab, and looking at the value in "Start in" field; that value is the folder that contains your Evernote.exe file. To navigate to the correct folder, type these commands, one per line, followed by the Enter key, at the system prompt (which is where it says C:\Users\Ivanka): CD \ CD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote" (or whatever value you found in the "Start in" field above) Note the quotation marks in the second command. THEN issue the patch command line VERBATIM as presented here: sfk rep Evernote.exe -firsthit -text "/-webkit-touch-callout: text;/background-color: #b2b1b3; /" -yes All best wishes!

You're not typing the command correctly; cut and paste it if you can. You left the ".exe" off of Evernote. Here's the correct command: sfk rep Evernote.exe -firsthit -text "/-webkit-touch-callout: text;/background-color: #b2b1b3; /" -yes Also, make sure you've closed Evernote beforehand (not just minimized it, but actually closed it, so that it no longer has an icon in your system tray). All best wishes.

The thread title is "Solution to not having white background for notes," and that, indeed, is the only issue the solution addresses. This does NOT give a full nightmode or dark theme.

@ashetty , thank you so, so much! This works! I'm absolutely thrilled. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I've edited the top message in this thread to point to your solution. All best wishes!

Thank you, Gazumped! Your instructions worked just fine! All best wishes!

I want to reinstall Evernote on a computer I used to have it on but deleted it from; I used CCleaner after the uninstall and don't believe there are any vestiges of the old install left. Rather than doing an initial Internet download synchronization of my multi-gigabyte database, I'd just like to copy the database from my main computer to the new computer, via a physical USB key transfer, and have Evernote on the new computer start off using that copied database in lieu of an initial sync (although, of course, I'll let it sync changes to the database after that). Are there best practices for doing this? Any tips before I undertake the process? Many thanks!

I've checked all occurrences of: FFFFFF ffffff "255, 255, 255" 0xFF background-color: #ff throughout Evernote.exe; none of them are responsible for the note background colour. There are other possible ways to code pure white, but I haven't had the time to check them all.

I'm the original poster in this thread. I've spent a lot of time spelunking in the latest Evernote.exe for the source of the white background appearing behind notes that don't have a background color specified. The background is indeed pure white, which is hex color #FFFFFF -- I've verified this using the excellent free tool Instant Eyedropper: http://instant-eyedropper.com However, none of the occurrences of #FFFFFF (or its decimal equivalent: 255, 255, 255) in recent copies of Evernote.com are responsible. I've also tried searching on the word "white" or the phrase "solid white," but there are so many occurrences of those that it became impractical to find which one might be responsible (although none of the ones I checked were). I'm stumped, and have now started investigating Microsoft's OneNote (which comes with multiple display themes, and uses the default Windows window color for notes background). I have my default window color (the workspace for windows in just about every program) set in Windows display options to the following, which gives a soothing pale green rather than blaring white; OneNote respects this, but Evernote, in defiance of Windows standards, does not: Hue: 80 Sat: 69 Lum: 194 Red: 192 Green: 220 Blue: 192 (which is #C0DCC0)

Sorry, DTLow, I know you're trying to help, but you're not on point here. My patch gave all EXISTING notes -- many thousands for many of us -- a gray background WITHOUT HAVING TO MODIFY THE NOTE and without CHANGING THE NOTE'S OWN CODING (that is, it changed the VISUAL THEME for the display of the note). It also made the workspace below and around a note something other than glaring white. Both of those, in many other apps ARE things provided by having a dark theme, and ABSOLUTELY the second one is. Before you tell the person who started a thread that he's off-topic, you might read the post that actually started the thread; it says: "The net result will be as in the photo attached: a light-gray background for notes against a darker gray workspace (you can adjust the colors to other values by editing the batch file, if you wish)." All best wishes.

As of Evernote for windows 6.6.1.5097 Prerelease, which came out on or about 21 May 2017, a new editor is used for the Evernote desktop client. The technique described by me in the first message above NO LONGER WORKS WITH THIS NEW EDITOR. All the more reason for Evernote itself to finally give us proper dark theme!

I've tested batch file (in the original top post in this thread) with the new Windows Evernote client, 6.4.2 Public on Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 10 64-bit, and it works just fine. Rob (in Toronto)

Search ONLY for the hex bytes EE F1 F2 -- just those six characters -- in HEX, not text mode. And make sure you've closed Evernote and any memory-resident web clipper for Evernote, via the task manager, which you access with CTRL-ALT-DEL.

If you can't find EE F1 F2 in the EVERNOTE.EXE file, you are indeed misusing your hex editor. The string occurs multiple times in every Windows release of Evernote for Windows. including the latest prerelease; I just checked with a hex editor and it's still there. My batch file is working fine, so either your SFK installation is corrupt, or you've got some part of Evernote still running when you run the batch file, preventing it from making the changes to Evernote.exe.

My batch file for changing note background colors, described in the first post in this thread, has now been tested with the latest 6.2.2.3164 Prerelease and works just fine.

This is all I've been able to find time to fix, Juan. In theory, similar patches could be made for other elements, but in practice it's a lot of trial and error. But I will report that my patch still works 6.1.1.2201 beta released this week.

My batch file (in the original top post in this thread) tested with the new Windows Evernote client, 6.0.5 Public, released today, and it works just fine.

Hi, Travis (wintech). My original EN-color.txt file must have been damaged or deleted when Evernote updated their forum software here recently. I've reattached the file to the top message in this thread, and am attaching it again to this message, as well. It should work now. (Don't forget to rename it to *.bat and to edit the paths for SFK inside the file.) EN-color.txt

Arthur8, it's working fine for me. The patch works just fine with all versions, right up through 5.6.9494 Public (current as of right now). In addition to fully exiting the Evernote desktop application, you also have to termiante the Evernote clipper if it's running before applying the patch. You can do that by issuing Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Windows Task Manager, clicking on the "Processes" tab, selecting EvernoteClipper.exe, and clicking on "End Process," and confirming by clicking "End Process" again in the dialog box. When looking at a regular Evernote note, you should have a gray background after applying my patch and a darker gray workspace background. Don't you? Some complex notes, or captured web pages, may have their own backround colors set; my patch doesn't override or defeat those color settings, but any new note, or old note that doesn't specify a different background color in its coding, should display with a gray background. Rob

Hi, Helix. Norton must be recognizing the fact that Swiss File Knife has the ability to alter the binary code of other programs -- which, of course, is precisely its purpose, and something it only does under the user's specific directions, but that is also the key characteristic of some kinds of malware. So, it's a false positive in Norton. You can get the source code for Swiss File Knife here, and examine and compile it yourself; it's perfectly safe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife/files/1-swissfileknife/1.7.5/

Working fine on 5.9.1.8472 Public as well. Note: if you have trouble applying the patch, do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Windows Task Manager and close all Evernote processes, which might include Evernote.exe, EvernoteClipper.exe, and EvernoteTray.exe, then try the patch again. Rob

The batch file described above has now also been tested with the latest Windows Public 5.9.0.8665, released 24 August 2015, and it works just fine.

And the batch file described above has now also been tested with the latest Windows beta, 5.8.16.8509, released today, and it works just fine.