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| Posted : | Monday, April 12th, 2004 01:00:23 AM |
| By : | pangbe |
| office icons replaced generic icons | Configuration: |
For some reason all my office icons (Word, excel, Powerpoint, etc) have been replaced by the generic windows icon (the one that has the windows logo on it).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?
thanks in advance.
| Operating System : win2k
CPU/Processor : 128
RAM : 128
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Re: office icons replaced generic icons by tonto3 on April 12th, 2004 10:10:42 AM
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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Re: office icons replaced generic icons by on April 15th, 2004 11:32:45 PM
Um...was it just my computer, or was that a weak link? (File not found).
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Re: office icons replaced generic icons by on April 16th, 2004 04:07:34 AM
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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Re: office icons replaced generic icons by Anonymous Ghost on October 18th, 2004 04:25:31 PM
Your ShellIconCache file is probably corrupted...just browse to C:\Winnt and delete the shelliconcache file, then reboot. You may have to view hidden files if you can't find it at first, or just do it from DOS and attrib -h when you're in the root of C:\WINNT they type del shelliconcache.
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Re: office icons replaced generic icons by Anonymous Ghost on November 18th, 2004 03:20:57 PM
On your computer, get rid of the ShellIconCache file in the WINNT folder. That is your Icon Cache essentially. It's what associates a particular icon with a particular application. This should work all the way back to at least Win98. I'm not sure about 95 though, that was before my time. |
Re: office icons replaced generic icons by Anonymous Ghost on September 05th, 2005 05:15:17 AM
I had the same problem, my Office icons had dissappeard & replaced with the generic windows icon & in my Office Outlook Bar, question-marks...
ShellconCache solution didn't work.
Tweak UI solution didn't work.I had the same problem, my Office icons had disappeared & replaced with the generic windows icon, and in my Office Outlook Bar were replaced by question-marks...
*ShellconCache solution didn't work.
*Tweak UI solution didn't work.
But thanks you guys who suggested these solutions - will come in handy one day I'm sure J
This workaround is long & messy, but it was the only one that worked…
Go into 'Folder Options' from the Control Panel menu, find the file types that are problematic, (e.g. .doc, .xls, .ppt …etc) and click 'Advanced'.
Click change icon (probably get an error message saying can't find the file), click ‘OK’ and then browse to your Office installation folder - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office, locate the relevant icon for the file extension, click ‘Open’ and choose your preferred icon.
You need to do this for all the icons that have been replaced, not ideal but works.
Anyone else suggest a more elegant (and quicker) solution?
But thanks you guys who suggested these solutions - will come in handy one day I'm sure.
The only work-around I could find was to go into 'Folder Options' from the Control Panel menu, find the file types that are problematic and click 'Advanced', click change icon (probably get an error message saying can't find the file), click OK and the browse to your Office installation folder - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office |
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