Hi,

I had an disastrous encounter with Service pack 1 for Visual Studio
2005 after which many programs stopped working. I got them working
again by reinstalling the Service Pack 1 and I also noticed that all
the buttons in
Outlook 2003 had changed to ones with hard corners and the window
background color instead of the soft-cornered, nice-looking ones.
I've tried to repair the .NET Frameworks 2.0->3.0 and
reinstalled 1.1. Do I need 1.0? Maybe I have some file missing or a
trashed component but I don't know how to find out which one it is if
it's connected to the .NET Frameworks at all.
Any help would be greately appreciated!

Regards,
Linus

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"Linus" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I had an disastrous encounter with Service pack 1 for Visual Studio
> 2005 after which many programs stopped working. I got them working
> again by reinstalling the Service Pack 1 and I also noticed that all
> the buttons in
> Outlook 2003 had changed to ones with hard corners and the window
> background color instead of the soft-cornered, nice-looking ones.
> I've tried to repair the .NET Frameworks 2.0->3.0 and
> reinstalled 1.1. Do I need 1.0? Maybe I have some file missing or a
> trashed component but I don't know how to find out which one it is if
> it's connected to the .NET Frameworks at all.
> Any help would be greately appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Linus
>

Close Outlook. Search for and rename outcmd.dat. Open Outlook and see if that
helps. If not, open Outlook with the /cleanviews switch:

Start > Run > outlook.exe /cleanviews

Let me know if that helps or not.

--
Kathleen Orland - MVP Outlook
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
http://www.howto-outlook.com/



"Linus" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had an disastrous encounter with Service pack 1 for Visual Studio
> 2005 after which many programs stopped working. I got them working
> again by reinstalling the Service Pack 1 and I also noticed that all
> the buttons in
> Outlook 2003 had changed to ones with hard corners and the window
> background color instead of the soft-cornered, nice-looking ones.
> I've tried to repair the .NET Frameworks 2.0->3.0 and
> reinstalled 1.1. Do I need 1.0? Maybe I have some file missing or a
> trashed component but I don't know how to find out which one it is if
> it's connected to the .NET Frameworks at all.
> Any help would be greately appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Linus
>
>

Hi,

Thanks for the help, but it didn't work. I'm having a feeling that the
VS2005 update trashed some component or registry setting so that when
Outlook is trying to load the component for the buttons and can't find
it, it reverts to a fall-back button so that it can start. I would
prefer not to reinstall Windows to get "my" buttons back.

Regards,
Linus

On Oct 20, 5:51 pm, K. Orland <KOrl...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Close Outlook. Search for and rename outcmd.dat. Open Outlook and see if that
> helps. If not, open Outlook with the /cleanviews switch:
>
> Start > Run > outlook.exe /cleanviews
>
> Let me know if that helps or not.
>
>
> "Linus" wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I had an disastrous encounter with Service pack 1 for Visual Studio
> > 2005 after which many programs stopped working. I got them working
> > again by reinstalling the Service Pack 1 and I also noticed that all
> > the buttons in
> > Outlook 2003 had changed to ones with hard corners and the window
> > background color instead of the soft-cornered, nice-looking ones.
> > I've tried to repair the .NET Frameworks 2.0->3.0 and
> > reinstalled 1.1. Do I need 1.0? Maybe I have some file missing or a
> > trashed component but I don't know how to find out which one it is if
> > it's connected to the .NET Frameworks at all.
> > Any help would be greately appreciated!
>
> > Regards,
> > Linus