I lost some Icons! MS Office and Adobe

[LTH80]

For some reason my office documents and and pdf files are just showing up with the generic windows icon... like the one windows uses when it doesn't know which program to associate the file with. So far I've just noticed it with office and adobe reader.

What happened was, i was fooling around with permissions and accidently denied myself permissions to all my user files -everything under c:\users\myname I eventually got it back and rescued my files but some things just weren't right so I just created a new user acct and deleted the old one. Now, like I said, some of the file associations are screwed up. if I double click the .docx file, for example, it will open fine, so windows does know which program to open the file with but the icon isn't there.

Is there some way I can fix this? or maybe i just have to reinstall those programs?

[MikeMoss]

Hi

This will not work for Icons on the quick launch bar.

Right click on the Icon on the Desktop or Start Menu, select Properties, select the Shortcut Tab, select Change Icon, you will probably see your Icon in the change icon screen.

Select the Icon, click OK, click Apply, and click OK.

You should now see the Icon the way it should look.
To replace the Icons on the Quick Launch bar select the new Icon and click Pin to Taskbar then delete the old one.

Mike