Bizarre Icon Caching?

[Nathan Clevenger]

I had originally installed Office 2007 Beta 2 on a clean Vista RC1 box. I
then downloaded and upgraded to Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh, and I
noticed all of the Office icons changed to newer, very nice looking designs.
I had copies of the shortcuts in the Start Menu on my desktop, and
immediately after the install all of the icons in the Start Menu and on the
Desktop were new.

I didn't notice exactly when it changed, but right now the Outlook icon on
the desktop, in the Start Menu, and the one in the tray is the new version of
the icon, but the one pinned on the top of the Start Menu is the old Outlook
icon. For all of the other Office apps that I had icons for on the desktop
(Excel, PowerPoint, and Word), they reverted to the old icons while the ones
in the Start Menu remained the new ones.

I copied the Access short-cut to the desktop, and it remained the new icon.
I deleted the Excel short-cut on the desktop (with the old icon), and copied
the shortcut in the start menu (with the new icon) to the desktop ... and
when it pasted it become the old icon again.

Any ideas? It's not a major bug, but it's weird and certainly a little
annoying!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nathan,

It's an anomaly that has been seen, but I'm not at my regular computer at present and don't recall if there was a true fix for it.

Is it just the icon for Outlook in the pinned items at present (in your message I'm not clear if it spread to others now or just the
Outlook one)?

If you delete the pinned one close Outlook, restart it which Outlook icon appears if you then readd it to the pinned choices?

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I had originally installed Office 2007 Beta 2 on a clean Vista RC1 box. I
then downloaded and upgraded to Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh, and I
noticed all of the Office icons changed to newer, very nice looking designs.
I had copies of the shortcuts in the Start Menu on my desktop, and
immediately after the install all of the icons in the Start Menu and on the
Desktop were new.

I didn't notice exactly when it changed, but right now the Outlook icon on
the desktop, in the Start Menu, and the one in the tray is the new version of
the icon, but the one pinned on the top of the Start Menu is the old Outlook
icon. For all of the other Office apps that I had icons for on the desktop
(Excel, PowerPoint, and Word), they reverted to the old icons while the ones
in the Start Menu remained the new ones.

I copied the Access short-cut to the desktop, and it remained the new icon.
I deleted the Excel short-cut on the desktop (with the old icon), and copied
the shortcut in the start menu (with the new icon) to the desktop ... and
when it pasted it become the old icon again.

Any ideas? It's not a major bug, but it's weird and certainly a little
annoying!>>

 

[Nathan Clevenger]

Hi Bob - thanks for the reply.

Yes, I believe it started with the pinned Outlook item, then it spread to
all the office icons on the desktop EXCEPT for the Outlook. If I deleted and
recreated any of the shortcuts on the desktop that had reverted to the old
icons, they would just come back as the old icon. If I created a shortcut on
the desktop, though, for an Office program that I didn't originally have on
the desktop (Access and Publisher) then those icons showed up as the correct
new ones.

I ended up running Office Diagnostics, and it found and fixed the issue. It
was the only issue it found. As for any other variables that could have
caused it - the only other programs I had installed in the meantime I believe
were VS2005 Pro and Expression Graphic, Interactive, and Web CTPs.

Who knows ...

Thanks again!
Nathan

 

[Nathan Clevenger]

OK - it got even weirder. Although Office Diagnostics had just fixed it, I
restarted my computer and when it came back up, the Word icon on the desktop
remained the new version, but Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint reverted to the
old icon. The start menu and pinned icons are still all ok.

I'm going to run Office Diagnostics again ... but this seems really bizarre
....