chiners_68 Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Currently have office 2000 installed & the start menu default mail icon is set to outlook 2000. When I do an install of office 2003 over the top it does not update this icon to outlook 2003.exe path. Does anyone know the reg key for me to set up a script to change this.cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 You could tryKeyname: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\<Your Email Client Name>\DefaultIconValue Name: (default)Value: This is what needs changing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefoxthebomb Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Create a reg file and put this into it. It will create an outlook 2003 icon on your desktop.Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalfrost Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 This is part of a inf file I use for installing TheBat!, you can modify it for your needs: [Version] Signature=$Windows NT$ [DefaultInstall] AddReg=DefaultClient [DefaultClient] HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail",,,"The Bat!" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\The Bat!",,,"The Bat!" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\The Bat!","DLLPath",,"%16422%\The Bat!\TBMapi.DLL" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\The Bat!\Protocols\mailto",,,"URL:MailTo Protocol" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\The Bat!\Protocols\mailto","EditFlags",0x00010001,2 HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\The Bat!\Protocols\mailto\DefaultIcon",,,"%16422%\The Bat!\thebat.exe,0" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\The Bat!\Protocols\mailto\shell\open\command",,,"""%16422%\The Bat!\thebat.exe"" %1" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\The Bat!\Shell\open\command",,,""%16422%\The Bat!\thebat.exe"" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiners_68 Posted July 26, 2005 Author Share Posted July 26, 2005 thanks for your assistance guys but im still not getting it. Yzowl,there is 3 mail clients listed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mailoutlookoutlook express hotmail there is no straight directory below called defaulticon but its in \Protocols\mailto\DefaultIcon under all 3 mail clients. all these are set but not one is actually the default one to set for what you want displayed.the problem is a HKCU problem as I can manually set mine but when another user logs in they get the old icon till they set manually.any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiners_68 Posted July 26, 2005 Author Share Posted July 26, 2005 (edited) ok.i have fixed the problem for the user which is logged in with this[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage]"Favorites"=hex:00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80,f5,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,bd,af,00,c0,\ 4f,60,b9,f0,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,14,00,1f,80,f4,a1,59,25,d7,21,d4,11,bd,af,\ 00,c0,4f,60,b9,f0,00,00,ff"FavoritesChanges"=dword:00000007I got to this by doing a reg compare before & after, manually setting & removing reg parts slowly to find what effected the change.problem i now have is getting this to work for the default user profile so all new users will get the change. whaere in the registry does the default user section resdie.? I thought it was HKusers\.Default\ but that didnt work adding to there. Edited July 26, 2005 by chiners_68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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