How to get outlook icon back on desktop thru registry

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Guest

I am trying to get the Outlook icon back on the desktop uaing the
instructions I found below:

Add the Outlook 2003 Desktop Icon Help
Assistance > Deployment Center Assistance > Office 2003 Resource Kit >
Journal

In earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook, users could right-click an Outlook
desktop icon and then click Properties, allowing them to create e-mail
accounts, change profiles, and so on.

So that Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 complies with Microsoft Windows XP
certification requirements, the desktop icon is not installed with Outlook.
Users can access the Properties option by clicking Start and then
right-clicking the Outlook icon, or by double-clicking Mail in Control Panel.

You can re-create the desktop icon for users by adding a registry key.

To re-create the Outlook desktop icon

On the Add/Remove Registry Entries page in the Custom Installation Wizard or
the Custom Maintenance Wizard, click Add.
On the Add/Modify Registry Entry page, complete the fields to create a new
registry key:

Root: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Data type: REG_SZ
Key:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

Select the Create empty key check box.
Click OK.
For more information about adding or removing registry keys by using the
Custom Installation Wizard, see “Specify registry key settings†in
Customizing Outlook Features and Installation With the Custom Installation
Wizard.

WHERE IN THE "HECK" IS On the Add/Remove Registry Entries page in the Custom
Installation Wizard or the Custom Maintenance Wizard, click Add LOCATED??

I downloaded the Office resource kit ork.exe command, unzipped it and when
going through the Custom Installation Wizard or the Custom Maintenance Wizard
it points me to enter an .MSI file. What file is this?????
 
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Ben M. Schorr - MVP

Don't worry about the custom installation wizard. If you just need it on
one machine just go to Start | Run | Regedit, navigate to the key indicated
below in your original message and add the key it says manually.

By the way, you should make sure you have a good backup of your registry and
system before you edit the registry because if you incorrectly edit your
registry many tragic things can happen including loss of data, loss of
system access and needless torment to several species of small animals.


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-Ben-
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**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
 
G

Guest

Ben:
I've worked with regedit before, but with instructions I downloaded from
the Microsoft website listed below do I create a new key in the root
directory or what? The instructions are very vague!!!!!

Root: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Data type: REG_SZ
Key:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
Anxiously waiting!!

Kraig
 

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