How can I restore my Office icons?

T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
T

Trev

Michael Curry said:
Yes but that is a lot of effort just to get some pretty icons back. I
guess
my question should have been how to repair office without the .msp files
it
wants... :S

You can not, so put the disc inand point to that. Though pointing windows
to the folder would be quicker in my eye. as Its a windows problem
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
M

Michael Curry

Problem solved:
The problem arised from me deleting what I thought were un-needed files in
the 'Installer' folder in %SystemRoot% (C:\windows in this case). This was
discovered by looking at the source of the shortcut. The icon refers to a
file stored in one of these hidden, readonly files. Lukily I had another
machine with the deleted files available, so by creating the correct
directory in the %SystemRoot%\Installer directory, it fixed all the shorcut
icons.

:|
 
L

Lovely

What if you'd recreate the shortcuts to the .EXE files? right click in
Explorer at the c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs and
right-click, select new, shortcut. Point them to c:\program files\microsoft
office\office11\winword.exe excel.exe and apperently so on.

hth,
g


I had a similar problem, but the shortcut icons actually disappeared.
this happened after I use the maxtor utilities to copy the contents of
my smaller drive to my new larger drive and make it bootable.

recreating the links as you suggested above get's the programs working
just fine.

However, I can't find all of the tools that were installed with office
2003 pro and the office update site will not work because of the
missing msp files that were originally installed in a hidden folder.
mircogouge wants a 35.00 U$ payment before even attempting any help
with no guarantee that they can help.

anyone else encounter this problem and know how to restore or manually
download the windows installer to get the msp files put back where
they belong?

if there is no way to restore this is it safe to manually remove
office and delete the registry lines to office and then reinstall
office 2003 pro?

I would hate to have to reinstall everything after reformatting the
drive.

Lovely
 
L

Lovely

What if you'd recreate the shortcuts to the .EXE files? right click in
Explorer at the c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs and
right-click, select new, shortcut. Point them to c:\program files\microsoft
office\office11\winword.exe excel.exe and apperently so on.

hth,
g


I had a similar problem, but the shortcut icons actually disappeared.
this happened after I use the maxtor utilities to copy the contents of
my smaller drive to my new larger drive and make it bootable.

recreating the links as you suggested above get's the programs working
just fine.

However, I can't find all of the tools that were installed with office
2003 pro and the office update site will not work because of the
missing msp files that were originally installed in a hidden folder.
mircogouge wants a 35.00 U$ payment before even attempting any help
with no guarantee that they can help.

anyone else encounter this problem and know how to restore or manually
download the windows installer to get the msp files put back where
they belong?

if there is no way to restore this is it safe to manually remove
office and delete the registry lines to office and then reinstall
office 2003 pro?

I would hate to have to reinstall everything after reformatting the
drive.

Lovely
 
L

Lovely

What if you'd recreate the shortcuts to the .EXE files? right click in
Explorer at the c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs and
right-click, select new, shortcut. Point them to c:\program files\microsoft
office\office11\winword.exe excel.exe and apperently so on.

hth,
g


I had a similar problem, but the shortcut icons actually disappeared.
this happened after I use the maxtor utilities to copy the contents of
my smaller drive to my new larger drive and make it bootable.

recreating the links as you suggested above get's the programs working
just fine.

However, I can't find all of the tools that were installed with office
2003 pro and the office update site will not work because of the
missing msp files that were originally installed in a hidden folder.
mircogouge wants a 35.00 U$ payment before even attempting any help
with no guarantee that they can help.

anyone else encounter this problem and know how to restore or manually
download the windows installer to get the msp files put back where
they belong?

if there is no way to restore this is it safe to manually remove
office and delete the registry lines to office and then reinstall
office 2003 pro?

I would hate to have to reinstall everything after reformatting the
drive.

Lovely
 

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