Office 2007 Icons Gone?

[Stuart Dole]

Recently all the Office 2007 application and shortcut icons have reverted to
"generic", as well as document icons. Everything still seems to work OK.
What's up? I tried to change the icons in some of the shortcuts, but the
"change icon" button was dimmed and didn't work. In the "Program Files"
folder the actual applications still seem to have their icons, but nowhere
else in the system.

The only thing that might have changed is that I also recently upgraded my
hard drive (you would have too!), using Western Digital's application for
migrating to the new drive. Office (and Outlook!) run much faster, but
disguised as generic...

How to get the icons back?

Thanks & happy trails,
Stuart

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Try running diagnostics/repair (Office button, [App-name] Options, Resources

 

[Stuart Dole]

Try running diagnostics/repair (Office button, [App-name] Options, Resources

No luck. Diagnostics ran with no errors, and even after a system restart my
desktop is littered with "generic" icons for the Office 2007 documents, and
the icons in the quick start tray (is that what it's called?) are generic
apps. Most other apps have their proper icons.

This is not a "serious" issue -- other wise everything runs fine. It just
looks funky!

Happy trails,
Stuart

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Try running diagnostics/repair (Office button, [App-name] Options, Resources

No luck. Diagnostics ran with no errors, and even after a system restart my
desktop is littered with "generic" icons for the Office 2007 documents, and
the icons in the quick start tray (is that what it's called?) are generic
apps. Most other apps have their proper icons.

This is not a "serious" issue -- other wise everything runs fine. It just
looks funky!

Sure, I understand.

One thing I should have suggested earlier was to restart Windows, if you haven't
already done that.

You might also try re-creating some of the shortcuts to see if they now get
their proper icons.

And for the shortcuts, you can rightclick, Properties, then click Change Icon to
try a reset.

 

[Stuart Dole]

Hi & Thanks, Steve -

I tried all those things -- I shutdown the computer every night anyway (at
150 watts it adds up to about $100 a year in electricity if I left it on --
how many tons of CO2 is that?), so windows restarts every morning. I also
investigated manually resetting the icons (in Properties...) but the button
is grayed out, so I can't!

Thanks again, I guess I'll live with it for now. Maybe someday I'll have a
reason to reinstall Office (I hope not!) and it will all be good...

Happy trails,
Stuart

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi & Thanks, Steve -

I tried all those things -- I shutdown the computer every night anyway (at
150 watts it adds up to about $100 a year in electricity if I left it on --
how many tons of CO2 is that?), so windows restarts every morning. I also
investigated manually resetting the icons (in Properties...) but the button
is grayed out, so I can't!

Hm. Vista? What if you log in as admin? In fact, what if you log in as admin and do
the detect/repair drill?

 

[gelhaddad]

I read your problem when I faced a similar one, apparently the folde
located at
C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}

was deleted, this folder contains exe files that group all offic
icons, I restored it from another office 2007 installation and all icon
poped up on a refresh.

good luck, i attached the files below incase you have no access t
another installation.

'90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000ff1ce.zip - 3.77MB
(http://www.zshare.net/download/14978562ec647631/