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office icons replaced generic icons
Name: pangbert Date: April 12, 2004 at 11:30:23 Pacific OS: win2k CPU/Ram: 128
Comment:
For some reason all my office icons (Word, excel, Powerpoint, etc) have been replaced by the generic windows icon (the one that has the windows logo on it). In other words, when I look at the folder My Documents, instead of seeing the different icons for different types of applications (the blue W for Word, or the green X for exel, etc) all I see is a bunch of generic icons that do not describe what type of file it is. How do I get the old (office) icons back?
Name: Tonto Date: April 12, 2004 at 20:40:42 Pacific
Reply:
Use Tweak UI to repair your icons, it might work. Download, run tweakui.exe, extract all files, right click tweakui.inf, select 'install'. Go to control panel, click TweakUI, Click Repair, select repair Icons. Hope this helps.
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Response Number 2
Name: Elinatim Date: April 16, 2004 at 10:02:45 Pacific
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Um...was it just my computer, or was that a weak link? (File not found).
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Response Number 3
Name: Elinatim Date: April 16, 2004 at 14:37:34 Pacific
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Okay, I found Tweak UI on Microsoft's support site. Great stuff! But it does not take care of my problem. All my Excel docs, Word docs, and other Office docs have this generic Windows flag icon. All my exe files (including Windows and Excel) have the generic white box with the blue bar for an icon, even though the default icon box is checked. HELP!
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Response Number 4
Name: JavaMan Date: April 30, 2004 at 13:00:39 Pacific
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I have exactly the same problem. Tweakui failed to rectify and other methods such as resetting the windows icon cache also failed. Unable to change the icon from the program files in the Office director. Shortcut icons for Office exe files and other software exe files display correctly. Does anyone have a solution? Running Office XP under Windows XP Pro...
Summary: The most common cause is that someone accidentally moved the Office folder (usually Program Files\Microsoft Office) to somewhere else. This makes your desktop shortcuts point to nowhere and thus they ...
Summary: have had the same problem, i don't think the disk image process has anything to do with it. i had to remove and re-install office to get the icons back. ...
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