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There are certain reasons why your taskbar has turned white on your computer. These reasons will be shown in this article if you read till the end.
Sometimes, the taskbar doesn’t stop at turning white but can be frozen also. A situation like this can be frustrating if you have no idea what to do to restore it back to normal.
Windows 10 is filled with cool features and at the same time, comes with problems that can be challenging to deal with sometimes.
Here are some hand picked taskbar related customization guides worth checking out:
Now, let’s jump right to it.
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Fix Windows 10 Taskbar not hiding by following the 7 steps outlined in this article. These steps include restarting Windows Explorer, disabling tablet mode, and resetting the taskbar.
There’s a chance your taskbar isn’t responding due to multiple requests to open a program on your computer.
For example,
If you try to open a program multiple times because the program refuses to respond to your first request, this can lead your entire system to freeze and your taskbar to go white.
A simple way to resolve this is to uninstall the program causing your taskbar to turn white.
Another way is to simple be patient for the taskbar to resolve itself or you can just restart your computer.
There’s a feature in windows 10 that picks a color from your wallpaper for your theme color.
So, if you have a bright or white wallpaper on your computer, windows 10 will change your taskbar to a bright or white colour.
A simple way you can resolve this is to change your wallpaper to a darker image or and image that has less white in it.
Let me show you how you can restore your white taskbar back to normal.
Here’s how,
Since your taskbar is already white, you can easily solve your problem by changing the color of your taskbar to something else.
Here’s how to change taskbar colour,
In Windows 10, there’s both light and dark mode.
Obviously, if your computer is set to light mode, everything on your computer will become white giving you this black text on a white background theme but, if your computer is set to dark mode, everything becomes black and you get the white text on a black background theme.
Switching to dark mode will surely turn your white taskbar to a dark taskbar.
Here’s how
Now, your taskbar will be changed from white to black.
If you don’t want a black colored taskbar, you can change by picking any color you want in the windows colors section.
If you want to go further to make other things dark on windows 10, you should check out this guide to switch to Windows 10 night mode or night light.
Windows 10 has this feature that automatically picks an accent color from the image you use as your wallpaper and use that particular color as the theme color on your computer,.
For example,
If you use an image that is bright or has too much white in it as your wallpaper, Windows 10 will automatically pick a white color for your theme because the image has a lot of white in it.
So, if your taskbar is white, you should consider using a darker wallpaper.
You can check out Unsplash dark wallpapers to find cool images to use for your desktop background.
Windows 10 gives you the option to turn off the automatic picking of accent colors which means you are free to use white wallpaper and then just changing your taskbar color to something else in windows colors.
Here’s how you can turn it off,
Simply uncheck automatically pick accent color from my background in colors settings.
Here’s how,
Windows key + I
Here’s how,
Windows key + R
regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSearchFlighting WhiteSearchBox