Wrong colored icon for Outlook 2003 on XP start menu

[William Walker]

Hi

I recently upgraded to Office 2003 professional from office 2000
professional on windows xp professional on a Pentium 4, 2 ghz, and 60 gb
hard disk and 512 mb ram. It worked fine without any problems.

However there is one funny thing. When I load XP's start menu, the Outlook
icon looked exactly like the same old plain outlook 2000 and 2002 icon
rather than the true Outlook 2003 icon. How can I make the icon look like a
proper Outlook 2003 icon rather than the outlook 2000 icon? is it a known
bug or is there a workaround to it? it seems funny to me. Does anybody
have the same problem when they upgrade from office 2000 or xp to office
2003?

The problem does not occur when Office 2003 is loaded on a machine with no
previous office version loaded.

William Walker

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Do you have any other shortcuts that also show the same wrong icon for
Outlook? Under Program Files=>microsoft office, do you show the right icon
on the executable file? If yes, right click on the .exe and select send
to->desktop (create shortcut) and then drag that one to your start menu
after deleting the old one.

I have seen this happen when updating from the Beta of Office.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, William Walker
asked:

| Hi
|
| I recently upgraded to Office 2003 professional from office 2000
| professional on windows xp professional on a Pentium 4, 2 ghz, and 60
| gb hard disk and 512 mb ram. It worked fine without any problems.
|
| However there is one funny thing. When I load XP's start menu, the
| Outlook icon looked exactly like the same old plain outlook 2000 and
| 2002 icon rather than the true Outlook 2003 icon. How can I make the
| icon look like a proper Outlook 2003 icon rather than the outlook
| 2000 icon? is it a known bug or is there a workaround to it? it
| seems funny to me. Does anybody have the same problem when they
| upgrade from office 2000 or xp to office 2003?
|
| The problem does not occur when Office 2003 is loaded on a machine
| with no previous office version loaded.
|
| William Walker

 

[William Walker]

Hi

Only the old icon has the old colors in the start menu, Other icons have
the newer colors

Did exactly what you did, and it worked. but it is a strange thing to have.

Thanks anyway.

William Walker