New design Access system dialogues

[Charax]

Suddenly this past week, I noted that Access system dialogue boxes have a different design. What causing the appearance of the new colorful dialogues? Can I force a return to the classic look?

1. The old original dialogue format:

2. The new dialogue format:

I much prefer the “classic” look of format #1, over the larger, more blatant colored appearance of format #2. Any advice about controlling the appearance will be much appreciated.

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro, Version 22H2 OS Build 19045.6159
Microsoft Access 2019 MSO (Version 2506 Build 16.0.18925.200760 32-bit

 

[June7]

I am using:
Windows 11
Microsoft® Access® 2021 MSO (Version 2507 Build 16.0.19029.20136) 32-bit

My box looks like the old one, except corners are slightly rounded. Don't think I did anything to cause that.

I don't think there is an Access setting to change this. Would probably have to be somehow changed in Windows and that would not be simple.

Are you running SQL in VBA? Do you really need to see that message? Could prevent it showing.

 

[Minty]

It's a office update thing.
I had a client panicking about it about 3 weeks ago, thinking they had broken something.

 

[Gasman]

I noticed the same thing.
I am on 2019.

 

[Charax]

Maybe it is an Access 2019 issue? It is confusing because standard system dialogue boxes such as Find & Replace appear in the old classic format:

But the system dialogue “not found” response is in the new colorful dialogue:

What’s going on? Can anyone explain? The inconsistency is bad.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[AccessBlaster]

probably a office theme change triggered by an update.

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[The_Doc_Man]

@Charax - I cannot explain the selectivity of error response format, but it is typical for this kind of thing to happen after a patch. The reason it is hard to explain this is that until MS publishes a detailed patch description, we might never know what was actually done. AND because Access is NOT an Open-Source product, we cannot see the source code behind the scenes of MSACCESS.EXE, the relevant utility program.

The fact that some dialogs are in the old style but others are in the new style usually means that one particular library was changed and so every error coming through that new library will have a new format. As an experiment, you could navigate to into Settings >> Windows Update >> History and see if an Office-related patch is listed recently.

You could TRY to roll it back to see if that reverts to previous behavior. The problem there is, however, that (a) if the patch was applied more than a few days ago, it might be too late to attempt reversal. Patch recovery data gets purged after a few days. Also, if more than one patch was applied and this change wasn't in the most recent patch, you might have a complicated path of reversal through multiple patches. (b) Reversing a patch based on message-box appearance is unwise since patches usually are fixes for broken things. Reversing a patch is like re-breaking a bone.