Visual Studio Code – how to enable the neon glow in synthwave 84 on windows?

The error is caused by the new version of VSCode, the extension normally change the workbench files of electron-browser but electron-browser was removed in the commit https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/f4f1b04d872a2b94d9a5105a1eefb81a213c07f2 and it has been replaced by electron-sandbox.

So you have 2 choices :

• You can go back to previous version of VSCode (1.69 June version) by downloading it here https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_69 and then run VSCode as Administrator and enable neon dreams again

Or

• You can stay in 1.70 and modify manually the extension :

1. Go to "C:/Users/YourUsername/.vscode/extensions/robbowen.synthwave… or wherever your vscode extensions are stored
2. Go to src/ and open extension.js
3. You will have to replace all the "electron-browser" with "electron-sandbox" so

      const htmlFile =
        base +
        (isWin
          ? "\electron-browser\workbench\workbench.html"
          : "/electron-browser/workbench/workbench.html");

      const templateFile =
        base +
        (isWin
          ? "\electron-browser\workbench\neondreams.js"
          : "/electron-browser/workbench/neondreams.js");

on line 34 become

      const htmlFile =
        base +
        (isWin
          ? "\electron-sandbox\workbench\workbench.html"
          : "/electron-sandbox/workbench/workbench.html");

      const templateFile =
        base +
        (isWin
          ? "\electron-sandbox\workbench\neondreams.js"
          : "/electron-sandbox/workbench/neondreams.js");

and same operation at line 149 on

  var htmlFile =
    base +
    (isWin
      ? "\electron-browser\workbench\workbench.html"
      : "/electron-browser/workbench/workbench.html");

4. Save extension.js, close VSCode, open VSCode as Administrator and Enable Neon Dreams again.

Hope it helps !