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How To: Why is VirtualBox only showing 32 bit guest versions on my 64 bit host OS?

My Host OS is a 64-bit version of Windows 10, VirtualBox categorically refused to display any 64-bit guest OS in the  Create Virtual Machine  dialog box. This was super annoying because all my ISOs were 64-bit therefore I couldn’t use them until I fixed this problem. Uninstalling and reinstalling VirtualBox made no observable difference so I booted into the BIOS to see what I could find there. I have a HP Pavilion g6 2231tx.  As a side note, a few months ago I made another idiotic mistake: I enabled a bunch of BIOS passwords to make myself feel  secure  but then forgot how to disable them! Thank God I didn’t enable a  Supervisor Password  or else I would have to replace the system board.  That’s seriously the only way to get around that one; resetting the CMOS won’t fix a forgotten Supervisor password.  Thankfully, I remembered, the Hard Drive password and the Power-On Password, so after surmounting those obstacles, I removed those passwords and tried to see if there was an