It's good to see some devs still supporting their vb4 products here

Major thanks.
After some testing I found:
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The text-style controls disappear after allowing desktop notifications & dbtech_vbshout_settings gets set to 1048576 for the userid in the user database.
I can set it manually back to 4095 (the original value for my userid), and they are visible again on page refresh.
Hmm something with vbshout_settings 1048576... ?