Re: annoying change of the Administrative Tools icons

From: fasyl (fasyl@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/02 

From: "fasyl" <fasyl@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:19:33 +0100

Oh yes I HATE IT !! I downloaded Tweak UI 1.33 and I still haven't got rid
of these f****** Word icons. Now uninstalling Office and gonna see what
happens... Thanks anyway for the tip.

Fasyl

"Gary Morris" <gmorris61@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
news:#sICOZAOCHA.2520@tkmsftngp13...
> OOOH! Don't ya HATE it when that happens?
>
> Seriously, though, I've had similar and worse things happen with system
> icons, and it is at least annoying, at worst confusing. The best thing you
> can TRY is tweakui v1.33. There's a tab called "Repair" which hasn't
> but a few things in it, but one is "Rebuild Icons" and it may or may not
> save your ass. Get it from http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui
> or http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/
> Networking/NTTweakUI.asp
>
> It's gotten me out of a bind for more than just that, so give it a try. If
> that don't work,
> give the Micro$oft folk a good lambasting!
>
> "fasyl" <fasyl@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OVLPeK$NCHA.2624@tkmsftngp08...
> > hi
> > My girlfriend downloaded a free translation software on my Windows 2000
> > Server computer. At one point, she clicked on a file that didn't have
any
> > programs associated with it and she chose to open it with Microsoft Word
> > when prompted in the Open With dialog box. Now, as a result, more than
> half
> > of the icons in the Administrative Tools folder have the MS Word icon. I
> > find that quite annoying and I don't want to spend hours on it. I
deleted
> > the program and I believe all its associated files. Does anybody know
how
> to
> > get back to the normal icons?
> > Thanks a lot for any help.
> >
> > Fasyl
> >
> >
>
>

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