Outlook 2002 icon in systray for Outlook 2003 install

[Dave]

Hello,

Recently upgraded from Office 2002 to Office 2003 and have
been having a lot of problems getting the correct Office
2003 icons to appear. I was able to correct all the
desktop/explorer icons by changing my display settings
down to 256 color and then back up to 32 bit.

However, the Outlook icon in the systray stubbornly
remains as the Outlook 2002 icon. No matter how many
times I quit, log out and log in, quit and restart
Outlook, refresh the desktop, etc, this icon will not
change.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Brian Tillman]

However, the Outlook icon in the systray stubbornly
remains as the Outlook 2002 icon. No matter how many
times I quit, log out and log in, quit and restart
Outlook, refresh the desktop, etc, this icon will not
change.

As far as I can tell, the icon is what it should be, since I don't think
Outlook 2002 placed an icon in the system tray.

 

[Dave]

Brian,

But the icon that Outlook 2003 is putting in the systray
is not the Outlook 2003 icon, it's an older Outlook 2000
icon (I should not have said Outlook 2002 in my original
post, I don't know what the icon looks like for that one).

In other words, Outlook 2003 is putting an icon in the
systray, which is fine, but the icon that it has put there
is the old style Outlook 2000 icon.

Does anyone have any ideas? Can't find anything in the
knowledge base.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Brian Tillman]

In other words, Outlook 2003 is putting an icon in the
systray, which is fine, but the icon that it has put there
is the old style Outlook 2000 icon.

Have you tried repairing the icons? The TweakUI powertoy will do this. If
you don't have it, download it from Microsoft.

 

[Dave]

Great suggestion, but yes, I've done that.

It's the weirdest thing. I assume (and you know what
happens when you assume) that there is a registry entry
out there somewhere that controls this but I can't find it.

Thanks for your help,
Dave

 

[Brian Tillman]

It's the weirdest thing. I assume (and you know what
happens when you assume) that there is a registry entry
out there somewhere that controls this but I can't find it.

Why do you believe it's the "wrong" icon. My system tray icon for OL 2003
is a little yellow square with a golden circle representing a clock face
with hands pointing to nine o'clock. When Outlook is performing a
send/receive, it changes the icon to superimpose to envelopes over that
square. What does yours look like?

 

[Brian Tillman]

My system tray icon for OL
2003 is a little yellow square with a golden circle representing a
clock face with hands pointing to nine o'clock.

Make that three o'clock. I don't know what I'm saying.

 

[Dave]

OK, maybe it's not the wrong icon, you tell me.

Look at the icon you click on to launch Outlook.

Now go look at the icon in the systray.

Are they the SAME icon, or different?

 

[SgtRich]

OK, maybe it's not the wrong icon, you tell me.

Look at the icon you click on to launch Outlook.

Now go look at the icon in the systray.

Are they the SAME icon, or different?

They're different.

The desktop icon shows the clock at 3:00 above and to the left of a letter,
inside of a square.

The system tray icon just shows the clock at 3:00 inside of a square. No
letter. Definitely a different icon.
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[Dave]

I think it's got something to do with the O/S and the kind
of icon you can display in the systray.

At home I have XP, Office 2003, and the systray icon is
the same as the Outlook launch icon.

At the office I have W2K, Office 2003, and the systray
icon is the old Office 2K icon.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I think it's got something to do with the O/S and the kind
of icon you can display in the systray.

At home I have XP, Office 2003, and the systray icon is
the same as the Outlook launch icon.

At the office I have W2K, Office 2003, and the systray
icon is the old Office 2K icon.

And I have Windows XP Pro and Outlook 2003 (but Office XP for the rest of
it) and the icons are different. The icon in my System Tray and the one in
my Quick Launch bar are the same: the clock with no letter. The desktop
icon (which isn't usually there for Outlook 2003, but I put it back) is the
clock above and to the left of an addressed envelope. If I examine the
properties of the quick launch shortcut, and shoose "Change Icon", the
clock-and-letter appears to be the currently chosen icon, even though the
clock-sans-letter is all that shows. This same icon appears in the Outlook
placeholder on the task bar.

 

[Dave]

Yeah I guess it's just one of those things...I'm just
anal, wish I could get the Outlook icon in the systray and
the Outlook icon on the quick launch to match.