Desktop Icon

[Jay]

I have upgraded a Windows 2000 Professional laptop from
Office 2000 to Office 2003. After the upgrade the desktop
icon for Outlook still looks like the one from Office
2000 and not from 2003. I have removed the desktop icon
and then added it back with the registry key mentioned on
this site and others (both with the data field of 3 and
blank.) The icon still retains the Office 2000 look. Is
there anyway to get the Outlook desktop icon to have the
Outlook 2003 look?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Andreas Roeder]

Hi Jay,
are you sure, that you have removed all from Office2000?
The better way to update is a clean install, so you will never get this
problems

 

[scott]

I am also having this problem and have tried the same solutions that you have
tried. I just figured I would ask if you figured out a good solution to this
problem.

Thanks

 

[HazDan]

Has anyone ever found out a fix for this? I've looked everywhere I know and
see 2-3 of these posts (the Outlook 2003 desktop icon looks like the Outlook
2000 version), and the posts are never answered.

I am working on creating an MST that upgrades OL2000 to OL2003. My original
version (OL2003 flat) worked fine and the icon was the right one. However,
since I slipstreamed SP1 and 2 post-SP1 patches (KB885828 and KB870774) into
my administrative install point, I've been seeing only the old OL2000 icon
after the OL2003 update is applied. I have no idea if the slipstream caused
this change, but I'm at a loss.

Any ideas?

Dan

 

[HazDan]

I need to clarify that the rest of Office is staying at Office 2000, so we ar
enot doing a complet uninstall of Office. Instead, we are having the MST set
to remove Outlook 2000. It appears that OL2000 is being removed properly,
but I can't tell for sure.