Windows 10: Windows 10 alot of text is just blank white space

Alot of the text is just gone..... help?

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problem on a few menus - white text on white background


G'day all.

I have two instances of having white text on white backgrounds. I use start10 by Stardock, and on its menus, items currently highlighted are showing white text on a white background. Other (non-highlighted) items display correctly.

I also noticed this same thing when Cortana displays something like my shopping list. If i ask her to display my shopping list, she does, and i can see the checkboxes, but the actual text of the list is not visible.

I sense this has something to do with system level font/color settings, but I can't find where this is controlled in Win10.

 

How to change taskbar text back to white?

Thanks for the update. Corrupted or Broken Windows Update Components is one possible cause of the issue that you're encountering. Let's change the themes on the Control Panel and see if they help us in changing the Taskbar text color. To do so, please follow
these steps:

• Open Control Panel.
• Select View by: Small icons.
• Open Personalization.
• Switch to the Default theme called Windows. (The text will be white.)
• Switch the background to whatever they were before, and the text should stay white.
  

Update us on the outcome.

 

problem on a few menus - white text on white background


I restarted, unfortunately it didn't help the Cortana issue. Dark mode didn't fix it either. I did get a new clue though. If I mark something on the list as completed, the text appears.





So it seems to be a font issue - as the completed item uses the strikethru font, which displays normally. I feel like the regular list is somehow set to a white font.