Outlook Icon on Desktop.

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Mike Busch

I thought it was a fluke the first tiem I installed
Office 2K3. But it's more than a fluke as this has
happened to me several times now. I install Office under
one user, than the desktop icons disappear for all other
users. This becomes a problems for me. Now I'm not just
talking about a simple shortcut. I could copy and paste
that easily. What I want is the non-shortcut that sits
on the desktop. If you right click it it should give you
the control panel > mail setup.

I've looked through the KB and newsgroup entries but
founf nothing so far. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike
 
What I want is the non-shortcut that sits
on the desktop. If you right click it it should give you
the control panel > mail setup.
Click to expand...
Office setup no longer installs the special system icon for Outlook. Windows
XP users will see it at the top of the Start Menu (with the familiar
right-click properties option) if the Start Menu has been customized to put it
there (right-click taskbar > Properties >Start Menu >Customize > General)

The desktop menu was actually discontinued due to customer demand. If you
really want it back, you can edit the registry and add:

HKCU or HKLM \

Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{00020D
75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

No value... just the presence of the key will re-register the Explorer
Extension and display the old icon. You can add this back manually using the
Deployment Tools (CIW/CMW) if you so desire. HKLM puts it there for the whole
machine, HKCU for just you.
 
Awesome Athena, that worked! One minor problem though.
When I right click and go to properties, I get three
application errors. Anyway to stop this?

The first error says: "The instruction ... referenced
memory at ... the memory could not be read.

The next two errors say: "The exception unknown software
exception ... occured in the application at location ...

The second and third messages don't always happen, but
they usually do. Any thoughts on this one?

Mike
 
Here's a lesson from IT 101.

A simple reboot seems to have solved the problem. :P
Thanks again Athena.

Mike
 
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