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Win 11 ( 22621.160) - Dark mode - Explorer has a white toolbar - how to fix?
I had the same problem and was able to fix it by going to the triple dot in the file explorer bar
then options -> view tab -> uncheck "Always show menus" (It was the second from the top for me)
I also did the registry edit in the other post, but it didn't have any effect. Not not sure if its doing something in combination with this, however.
I would suggest deleting the entry and reboot, because it seems like the entry is not even in windows 11, at least in mine it wasn't. Deleting worked for me, and the entry did not come back after reboot. I introduced that entry on my win11 when i imported a personalized registry file that came from a windows 10 customization.
I don't have that entry either but still randomly getting the white bar 😞
- if you don't have the entry in registry and you still get the white bar, try the following:
1. create a new DWORD(32) and name it AlwaysShowMenus, set it to 1 and
2. go to file explorer -> options -> view -> and enable compact view
3. now you see a menu bar in white, right click on an empty space, and choose the option to lock the toolbar
4. now return to the registery and delete DWORD created
5. close and reopen file explorer and it should be gone forever (I hope so)
please let me know if this helped you.- This worked initially but the white bar comes back after a while, so it doesn't work 🙂
Dragonpornit's been over a week, the longest stretch I ever had, and the bar has not returned. It certainly appears that this entry is leftover from before they reskinned and dark modded explorer and no longer applies. So it is strange and quite a bummer in your case. I suppose you could always try a clean install to see if junk is cleaned up (mine WAS a clean install and still had the setting, but when removed worked)
