For some strange reason, the Cortana “Ask me anything” search box in the Taskbar may turn white suddenly without even the user clicking on it. This may have to do with Microsoft’s server settings and not a problem with your Windows 10 settings. Also, the search box registry tweak (WhiteSearchBox registry key) may prove ineffective as it works only for the current login session.
Change Cortana Search Box color from White to Normal
Here is a trick to revert Cortana search box background to the default gray color.
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- Click Start, Settings. Click Time & Language, and select Region & Language.
- Change to a country where Cortana is unavailable. For example, select “Yemen” or “Isle of Man”
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- Logoff and login back. Cortana search box background would have turned back to the default color.
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- Open Region & Language settings again, and revert to the original setting (e.g. to United states)
- Sign out, sign back in. Cortana “Ask me anything” should be back to normal.
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Thanks ! It fixed on mine.
It goes back to white after using the search box. Only option that really works is changing theme to dark. 🙁
THANKS ,IT FIXED MINE TOO 🙂
No, the white search background box comes back. I tried again the Setting> Regional and Languages…> It just fixed temporarily. Anyone knows how other options? Thanks in advance!
No longer works
You don’t really need to log off…you can just click on the Cortana bar, set back to US, and then click on Cortana bar again.
It fixed mine for a minute. But it goes back to glaring white! Wish Microsoft would just fix this for us with an update.
Thanks, fixed it for me
WORKING AS OF 10-Jan-2018
Nope, does not fix it.
It worked, but went back to white the next day. Any permanent fix?
But changing to the Dark Theme also changes everything else to dark/black that that applies to. Before the Fall Creators Update 1709, the search box was dark gray and the other backgrounds were white. Have to wait to see if Microsoft fixes this I guess.
It worked Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGH UGH UGH!!
Doesn’t work at all
Works for me. Thanks!
Thank you very much..
I didn’t get the cortana search box in my window 10