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Hi All,
I was using Win 10 (the latest update?), had a power cut (cue bad language) when the power came back on left it a minute or two to get stable, repowered PC gets into the Win 10 section of boot asks me to update a password (?). Not trying to log in, not connected to the Net. Try the standard password, complains that I need to change password so increase the end number by one. Continues boot, log in with old password. Never needed it since. Could it have been a BIOS password? I don't think I set it on this PC.
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You mean California is part of the US?  
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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I'm in the UK! We have our own problems, we don't need Wild Fires! 
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glennPattonWork wrote: repowered PC gets into the Win 10 section of boot
Then it's not the BIOS-password; once W10 starts booting, the BIOS will not ask for passwords or anything else - as far as it's concerned, it's done as soon as the OS boots (or fails to).
I'd be formatting that PC; Windows shouldn't bother to ask if there's already one set.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Didn't think so. That was the only thing I could think of. Once I get to a stage where I can this PC is headed for a complete format, too many HP 'widgets' for my likeing... 
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glennPattonWork wrote: Once I get to a stage where I can this PC is headed for a complete format
If it is not the BIOS nor Windows, it is probably malware; more likely since it didn't ask for your old password.
I wouldn't trust it, label it as compromised and deny it access to the network. Then format it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I occasionally use an old image processing program from 1999 mostly because I like its JPEG encoder. It has been a headache to make it run compatibly with W10. On this machine it works fine but not on my other one. For giggles, I tried it in Windows XP SP3 compatbility mode and this is how it appeared : https://i35.servimg.com/u/f35/17/98/38/10/pixwiz10.png[^]
My jaw bounced off the desk as I wondered what in the wide world of sports made that happen?
I have messed around a little on this machine and I can't make it happen but it does on the other one it does with the compatibility setting. They are both on update 1909. Does anyone know what enables this appearance?
This was actually a very welcome surprise because I detest the W10 GUI style and I was not aware this was possible. I intend to look into it some more.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You and me both.
The look, the feel....
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Ron Anders wrote: The look, the feel....
Of cotton, the fabric of our lives~~
Does anyone else remember that really old commercial?
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I'm not old enough to remember... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I would just run it in a VM with windows XP... This way you can be more or less confident, that it will work when you need it, and don't depending on how the PC woke up that morning.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Wow,
Looks like it has a NNTP engine built into the software. I've never heard of PixWizard before. I found it here: PixWizards Downloads[^]
It works perfectly on my box, 10.0.19041.xxx I opened a 3600x3600 JPEG and it was blazing fast.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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post it in free tools forum
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Have you tried right-clicking on the desktop, selecting 'Display Settings', scrolling to the bottom of that page and clicking 'Graphic settings' and overriding your app's preference there? (I've never played with that setting, so I don't know what it does. It is just the first thing I'd try.)
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All that offers for me is a choice of 'power saving' or 'high performance' (for a desktop app, IrfanView).
Most programs I tried in compatibility mode only offered back to Vista (no visual change I could see), but another old program (c 2007) can be set to XP-mode and shows the same visual style as above - but it was noticeably slow to load in XP mode. I get the impression that it is Windows doing the extra work.
modified 21-Aug-20 6:14am.
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It was worth a shot. Good luck with it! You can also sometimes play with compatibility settings by right-clicking on the executable file (or shortcut link) in Explorer and then choosing 'Properties' and changing to the compatibility tab.
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How it is supposed to look?
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I am not familiar with the application,
so I don't know what the normal look and feel is like.
Howeve, to the best of my knowledge, this UI look and feel is created by a controls library called ctl3d, or something similar.
It was introduced initially in windows 3.11g and later was carried over to windows 95.
You may want to check if such a DLL exists in the effective PATH when the program displays this UI.
Adar Wesley
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Did you try running it as admin? It might be the case that when you run it in compatibility mode it tries to reproduce the look of the version you are emulating, but might require elevation to actually change the look.
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Something else I noticed just last night : I run several rather old applications, one of which is the Windows File Manager from XP. Microsoft open-sourced the code so I downloaded it, massaged it a little, and compiled it in 64-bit mode. For the most part, it runs just fine in W10. Well, the weird thing with it is it's an MDI app and the client windows appear with a Win7-style non-client area as shown in the screen shot but the mainframe window appears with a W10-style non-client area. It looks really odd.
I would sure like to know what's up with this. I haven't read anything about this anywhere. Has anyone?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I don't known what application properties you can set to get the old style theming.
However you can call the DwmSetWindowAttribute function[^] with dwAttribute set to DWMWINDOWATTRIBUTE.NCRenderingPolicy and pvAttribute set to DWMNCRENDERINGPOLICY.DWMNCRP_DISABLED to disable the modern theming on the window's nonclient area.
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Ah! Very interesting! Thank you for pointing this out to me. I was not aware of this API. I need to experiment with this.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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