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Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Larry. :)

Do you get the same result regardless of whether you use the ‘Open…’ command on the File menu or double-click on a file in an Explorer window? If you start with the dark UI, does it remain dark or does it also switch to the alternative state? Which Affinity app(s) are you using?

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Thanks for the reply.

Using Affinity Photo

UI goes dark with both Open command or Double click in explorer.  When I close the file, UI goes back to light.

This doesn't happen when I start in dark UI - it stays dark when file is opened.

Gray sliders don't work in dark UI either.

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Thanks for the further details. I don’t use Windows 11, so I’ll leave the rest of this discussion to someone who does.

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Video recording?

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Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155.
Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155.
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6 hours ago, Larry Adamache said:

video recording?????????? 

 

 

Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301
Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155.
Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155.
Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.

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Reinstalling doesn't always wipe user settings - but reinstalls and reconfigures program settings. It probably should also should offer to reset user settings - reinstalling is after all usually performed to solve issues that can be caused by program setting issues or user setting errors. Who knows what the root cause is, after all.

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1 hour ago, Larry Adamache said:

I guess I will need to be careful when changing settings so if it happens again I will know which setting was the cause.

Quite a few settings have their own file (.dat or .propcol) in a user system folder (library or app data). For those which get their modification date changed by the app only if you changed them you can look for those in case the issue happens again.

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3 hours ago, Larry Adamache said:

I wonder why re-installing the software didn't do the same?

Like with a lot of apps besides the Affinity ones, after an app is installed & run by a user, various support files & folders are created somewhere in that user's Home folder to store all the user-specific data the app will use when run by that user. Since there can be multiple users, each with their own home folder & user-specific data, reinstalling the app itself does not affect that, in part because it would affect other users & in part because if the app itself has sustained damage or corruption of any of its component files, reinstalling the app to fix that should not wipe out any of that user-specific data.

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