Re: Changing icons

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"Gary Smith" <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Travis King <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Well, there are times that I do run out of things to do believe it or
>> not,
>> so it might become something worth doing if I have nothing better to do.
>> Now then, I have XP Home with SP2, Office XP, and I'll be using .ico
>> files
>> that I have created myself. I will be willing to work in the registry as
>> I
>> have manually removed Norton Systemworks from the Registry before to
>> reinstall it and get it to work properly. (Took 2 hours to do too.)
>
> Okay, let's assume that your icons are in a folder named C:\MyIcons. I'm
> running Office 2000 on Windows 2000, but the process should be the same
> except for a version number here and there.
>
> 1. Start Regedit and navigate to the .doc entry under HKEY_CLASSES. The
> value named (Default) will be the filetype associated with .doc files. In
> my case, the value is "Word.Document.8".
>
> 2, Now navigate to the entry for that filetype and click the plus sign to
> expand the subkeys. One of those subkeys should be named DefaultIcon.
> Select that to display the (Default) value. It will probably contain
> something like
> D:\WINNT\Installer\{00000409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}\wordicon.exe,1.
>
> 3. Double-click on the name (Default) and you'll get an edit box to change
> the value data.
>
> 4. Key in the fully-qualified filename of the icon you wish to use
> instead: C:\MyIcons\NewWordIcon.ico.
>
> 5. Click OK.
>
> Repeat the process for any other icons you wish to change, the exit
> Regedit. You may have to log off and on again before the change will take
> effect. It's a good idea to make backup copies of the keys before
> changing them in case something goes wrong or you decide you want to undo
> what you've done. To do that, select the keyname in the right-hand pane,
> then click Registry | Export and supply a filename and location. That
> will create a .reg file that can be imported to undo the changes.
>
> --
> Gary L. Smith gls432@xxxxxxxxx
> Columbus, Ohio
I'll give her a shot. Thanks for spending your time for something you
didn't have to. Appreciate it.


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