Problems with Office 2003 file icons in Vista.

Hi all,

Hope you guys can help me. I have an HP Pavilion laptop running Vista Home Premium and pre-installed MS Works. Note: Everything is in a Danish version, but it should not make any difference.

I uninstalled MS Works and installed MS Office 2003 (Std. Ed.). Now my *.doc and *.xls file icons are simply displayed as a diminished Word/Excel-logo on a white background, while the *.rtf files are displayed using the standard Word 2003 icon.

Also, the *.doc and *.xls files are simply referred to as “DOC/XLS-file� (and not “Microsoft Office Word/Excel 97 - 2003 Document�).

Note that the *.ppt file appears normal (both icon and file type description).



“Default Programs� show the various Word file associations as follows:



and this:



and this:



Which (as far as I can tell) all appear to be normal, except for *.doc and *.xls.

I have tried the following already:
1. Uninstalling and reinstalling Office 2003 completely.
2. All Vista and Office 2003 updates are installed.
3. Changing the registry in several locations. Interestingly, in the registry, the value in “DefaultIcon� in “Word.document.8� (ie. Office 2003) and “Word.RTF.8� both point to “C:\Installer….\wordicon.exe,1�. That is: as far as I can tell, they both point to the same icon (“1�) in wordicon.exe, but the end result is not the same. I have tried changing the wordicon.exe index value for “word.document.8�, but so far to no avail.

The two figures below show the Word 2003 icons available in the “installer� and “Office� folders, respectively.



I guess overall it is a minor issue (as I can open and edit the files without problems), but the incorrect appearance of the icons are driving me nuts!

Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Yours,
Peter
Denmark