Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Restore the Outlook 2003 Desktop Icon

This is something that has always annoyed me with the latest Office release. For some reason Microsoft decided to remove their typical 'Namespace Icon' for Outlook, and instead only uses a shortcut. Not only is the shortcut ugly, but it doesn't allow you to right-click and choose properties to modify the mail profiles.
To add this icon back to the desktop, either download this .reg file and import, or make the change yourself using the two keys below. This change can also be made in HKLM so it applies to all users.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsCurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsCurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace{10120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}]

This is one of the first things I do when re-installing a new PC, as I'm constantly needing to create and modify mail profiles for my daily breadwinning activities at a well known Fortune 100 computer corporation.

The same Name Space idea can be applied to FireFox as well, so that you don't get that annoying shortcut icon. See an article on that here.

2 Comments:

At 2:35 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

ok I downloaded and put them in my reg
but no icon appeared? and my shortcut didn't change ? what am I doing wrong?

 
At 3:51 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

how do I go about removing those lines from my registry/.

 

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