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Brass Contributor

Feb 22, 2022

Solved

Edge Transparent Menus

The new transparent menus in Edge are not usable. When I right click on something I can see the transparent menu appear, but I cannot read any of the text on the menu. I have no idea what the selec...

Tidester
Mar 06, 2022
I was going nuts on this one as well. It must not look as bad for some people. I could not read the text at all with it on. I found a solution to turn the new feature off. Go to edge://flags and look for a setting called "Enable Windows 11 Acrylic effect in menus" change the setting to Disable and you should be good to go. I have not noticed if "Enable Windows 11 Mica effect in title bars" is causing any issues or not.

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Feb 22, 2022

TallTomD

Of course, you can change the theme color in the Edge settings and that should help, but I suggest a new Windows theme - you can download it in the Microsoft Store - please write what you think?

TallTomD
Brass Contributor
Feb 22, 2022
Deleted Unfortunately changing the theme doesn't really help:

As you can see above the transparent settings menu is not usable even with a different theme. It is a little better in light mode, but not much. Apparently this problem could be related to me running Edge inside a VM on VMware Workstation?

I'm still looking for a solution.
- LeonieL
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 22, 2022
  I had the same problem with Edge running inside a VM on VMware. VM is running Windows 10. The fix by Tidester sorted it. I have no issues with Edge on Windows 10 or Windows 11 running on a host laptop.
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  Feb 22, 2022
  TallTomD
  I understand!
  I use high contrast - I always have a black background and enlarge everything in advanced system settings, so I do not use the default settings
  In the Accessibility settings, you can change the color filter, or turn on high contrast and increase app scaling and text.