Solved Intermittent fully transparent drop-down menus

Hello all. I'm experiencing an odd glitch where drop-down menus within explorer will intermittently have fully transparent backgrounds. It's happening whether the transparency feature is enabled or not. This screenshot shows the issue when I clicked on the "View" menu.

Hi @FTNR21 ,
I think this bug was mentioned in one of the blogs by MS.
What version are you on? Below your avatar shows you are still on 10.
Are you using any third-party customization tools?

OAT said:

Hi @FTNR21 ,
I think this bug was mentioned in one of the blogs by MS.
What version are you on? Below your avatar shows you are still on 10.
Are you using any third-party customization tools?

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Hi OAT. Yes, my PCs are Win10. The machine in question is a new laptop for my son which is Win11 Home, v23H2, OS build 22631.2506.

I found a Reddit thread with some people talking about what sounds like the same issue. No mention of a fix or if the issue is being addressed.

I had the same issue a while back on the Canary channel..., it eventually disappeared with subsequent Builds.

We've only had the laptop for about a week. Numerous updates installed since we set it up. Most recently, it got the 23H2 upgrade.

I briefly installed ClassicStart which creates a Win7 style start menu and launcher. I noticed the issue while that was running and thought it was being caused by ClassicStart so I un-installed it. This issue remained so I ran sfc which did find some corrupt files and fixed them but that didn't solve the problem.

I think we can call this one resolved. There was an Intel graphics driver that needed updated. Seems to be ok now.

Thank you for the replies!