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Ant665321
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Jun 19, 2022
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Win 11 ( 22621.160) - Dark mode - Explorer has a white toolbar - how to fix?

Hi all, can anyone help me get rid entirely (or turn dark) the old style white toolbar that is showing up in my explorer windows   I have already set the bar to locked as per https://www.reddit.com...
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    NickTG
    Jun 23, 2022

    Ant665321 

     

    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.

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Intlvlogs
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Jun 27, 2022

Ant665321 

Me too having inconsistencies in the dark-theme since latest (Explorer with tabs) update, any thoughts? When I first start my pc it comes in all white with black toolbar and when I click something (eg. a drive) it partially restores the dark theme. This is driving me nuts as a dark-theme daily-driver, the white patches just kills the purpose.

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kekeh
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Aug 08, 2022
I'm having the exact same issue. Got any luck dealing with it?
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    careca777
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    Apr 01, 2023
    I fixed it by going to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

    And deleting "AlwaysShowMenus", or set to zero.
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      Dragonporn
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      Apr 16, 2023

      careca777 Mine is already set to 0 but I still have the white bar problem 😞

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        careca777
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        Apr 16, 2023

        Dragonporn 

        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. 

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