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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.
careca777 Mine is already set to 0 but I still have the white bar problem 😞
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 too had this entry set to 1 in the registry, even though I installed Windows 11 from scratch so didn't have it introduced from an import. Regardless, I have deleted the entry and so far so good. Time will tell if it comes back and update if it does.
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.
