<p>Like many SO people, I'm in front of a computer almost all day. I like having a dark theme for Visual Studio (easier on the eyes), but since the rest of Windows and apps (explorer, dialogs, Outlook), have the full white background, it's even harder to switch between nice dark VS and sunshine bright Windows.</p>

<p>I tried a UXTheme.dll patch but couldn't find any dark themes that worked across Visual Studio and Windows apps in general. Any suggestions?</p>

<p>Edit: To be clear, I'd like no or almost no white. No scrollbars, menus, etc. </p>

May be not exactly what you are looking for, but
this is a dark color scheme
for visual Studio (2005 or 2008) you may use in complement of UXTheme.
Off course, they are other dar color schemes for Visual studio, like
this one
(Jeff
has one also
).
But I am not sure there is
one
tool that applies to all windows, including Visual Studio.