Menu bar goes greyed out

[roberttattorn]

Type: Bug

The top menu bar randomly turns greyed out and becomes unclickable.

VS Code version: Code 1.115.0 (41dd792, 2026-04-07T22:04:57Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
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Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	7.88GB (0.59GB free)
Process Argv	C:\Users\User\Documents\Zoo Outbreak -g C:\Users\User\Documents\Zoo Outbreak\Assets\Scripts\HumanAI.cs:1:0 --crash-reporter-id c7a3b80c-9dbb-4dcd-9ee0-96289f2fd3a7
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

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[gjsjohnmurray]

Mine greys out when I focus on another Windows app, but it doesn't become unclickable.

Did you try the Start Extension Bisect command to check whether one of your extensions is causing a problem?

[pwang347]

Hi @roberttattorn, thank you for reporting this. Could you please try the suggestion above and if it doesn't help please share a screenshot and/or recording? Thanks!

[vs-code-engineering]

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Happy Coding!

[ricardopretrazy]

I have the same issue, it seems to happen randomly. I can't click on any of the menu items, they all appear grey. I've tried the hot-keys also, like alt-f but it still doesn't expand the File menu.

My only work-arounds so far have been to click on the cog->Check For Updates, then dismiss that dialog, or just re-starting VSCode.

This has been happening for over a month.

My installed extensions have no overlap with the OP, so I doubt it's them.

[vs-code-engineering]

This issue has been closed as it has been labeled with info-needed and has not received the additional information that was requested from the issue author. It has been labeled as info-needed for 7 days.