The Outlook desktop icon is changed

[tek]

I don't know when or how this happened but I noticed that the desktop
icon for Outlook 2000 is changed. The icon has changed to something
that looks like a system icon. I tried TweakUI to repair icons. I
tried Outlooks restore shortcuts. I tried reinstalling Office 2000.
Nothing seems to work. I figured this has to be some registry trickery
but I don't know where to begin to resolve this. Is there a fix for
this problem?

 

[tek]

I don't know when or how this happened but I noticed that the desktop
icon for Outlook 2000 is changed. The icon has changed to something
that looks like a system icon. I tried TweakUI to repair icons. I
tried Outlooks restore shortcuts. I tried reinstalling Office 2000.
Nothing seems to work. I figured this has to be some registry trickery
but I don't know where to begin to resolve this. Is there a fix for
this problem?

I created another account. Reinstalled Office 2000 with this second
account and the Outlook desktop icon is present. Then I switched
users. I still don't see the correct Outlook desktop icon when I logon
with the original user account. Its still some system icon instead. So
this means its something wrong in the original user account profile
files? But where and what?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I don't know when or how this happened but I noticed that the desktop
icon for Outlook 2000 is changed. The icon has changed to something
that looks like a system icon. I tried TweakUI to repair icons. I
tried Outlooks restore shortcuts. I tried reinstalling Office 2000.
Nothing seems to work. I figured this has to be some registry trickery
but I don't know where to begin to resolve this. Is there a fix for
this problem?

It has been a long time since I used OL 2000. Is the icon on the desktop a
ral shortcut or is it a stub that invokes the Mail applet in Control Panel?

 

[tek]

It has been a long time since I used OL 2000. Is the icon on the desktop a
ral shortcut or is it a stub that invokes the Mail applet in Control Panel?

Its not a shortcut. Its one that will start the program and if I right
click the icon the properties menu is displayed to ad accounts.
In creating a second account called "test" and then reinstalling
Office 2000 the correct desktop icon is associated to Outlook.
However, this is not the case when I logon to my original user account
"user". The wrong icon get associated to Outlook on the desktop but
within the StartMenu the correct icon is associated to Outlook. Its
just a desktop thing.

 

[Charles W Davis]

Log on to your account that has the problem. Right-click on the desktop and
choose New> choose Short cut and browse to OUTLOOK.EXE

 

[tek]

Log on to your account that has the problem. Right-click on the desktop and
choose New> choose Short cut and browse to OUTLOOK.EXE







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I fixed it this way. I logon as administrator in safe mode. Copied all
data from test account (user folder) into the user account (user
folder). Logout and logon as user. The Outlook desktop icon is back
and works as it should by opening up the email account properties.
Must have been a corrupt files in there or a corrupted NTuser.dat
file.