electron-react-devtools causes app to hang with no error message, when using Windows 10 dark mode (only affects developers, not end-users of installed app)

[danielweck]

See:
electron/electron#19468 (comment)

[danielweck]

Side issue: #82

[danielweck]

From:
electron/electron#19468 (comment)

dark.cmd:

@echo off
%1 %2
mshta vbscript:createobject("shell.application").shellexecute("%~s0","goto :runas","","runas",1)(window.close)&goto :uacfalse
:runas
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize /v AppsUseLightTheme /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
goto :eof
:uacfalse

light.cmd:

@echo off
%1 %2
mshta vbscript:createobject("shell.application").shellexecute("%~s0","goto :runas","","runas",1)(window.close)&goto :uacfalse
:runas
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize /v AppsUseLightTheme /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
goto :eof
:uacfalse