Restore Office icons that have lost their normal appearance?

[rrheinzman]

My Excel icon has changed to a generic icon.

 

[AltaEgo]

Try Windows Explorer. Click Tools, Folder Options, File Types.
Select your 'problem' extension in the list.
-Click Advanced
-Click Change Icon
-Select your Excel icon

If the Excel icons do not show, separately find a file named xlicons.exe and
use the browse button in place of the last step to navigate to it.

If you cannot get this to work, try reinstalling again but select the
'repair' option. Hmmm before reinstalling that you might try step 2 of the
following:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

Your feedback would be appreciated.


HTH

 

[bls212]

Not sure if this is what your looking for but but go to windows explorer-tools-folder options. then select xls, as an example. select advanced. You should see a button to change the icon. if you get an error, you blew out theinstall folder that contained the xlicons.exe file. Here is the folder name, this is for xp: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{90120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}\xlicons.exe