How to change MS Office Shortcut Icons?

Hey all, just got Office 2010 TP, and was wondering how I go about changing the icons of the shortcuts, in the start menu.

I took ownership of the folder them and it didn't help. Any thoughts? I want to use this icon pack I found


This is what I get..


Attachment 25565

You can try deleting the ShellIconCache and reboot..

TGSoldier said:

You can try deleting the ShellIconCache and reboot..

The shell-what now?

Shawn will be the right person to help you with this.

hybridfan said:

Well apps sometimes are like this what I do is just delete that shortcut and drag the actual .exe file to the start menu program folder whilst holding the right button down, you will then get a box saying move to, copy to and create shortcut, choose the last one and then you can modify it.

Yeah two problems;

1. I cannot find the actually EXE of it, as there are MANY things in the folder under: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office

2. I found one that should have been it, but it said it wasn't a valid Win32 application (which leads me to believe that the shortcuts open multiple files, including some dll's).

Dinesh said:

Shawn will be the right person to help you with this.

:O

DarkNovaGundam said:

1. I cannot find the actually EXE of it, as there are MANY things in the folder under: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\Excel.exe

Nothing like that?

And for my Icon file..

C:\Documents and Settings\Your user name\Local Settings\Application Data

Turn on hidden files and delete that IconCache.db.

Windows will recreate it at startup.

TGSoldier said:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\Excel.exe

Nothing like that?

And for my Icon file..

C:\Documents and Settings\Your user name\Local Settings\Application Data

Turn on hidden files and delete that IconCache.db.

Windows will recreate it at startup.

No my folder is messier. :|

Okay so I delete that, restart, try again?

DarkNovaGundam said:

No my folder is messier. :|

Okay so I delete that, restart, try again?

Well then just do a search for Excel.exe or something of the sorts.

Yes, restart.

TGSoldier said:

Well then just do a search for Excel.exe or something of the sorts.

Yes, restart.

Deleting/restarting did nothing.

Oh I found Excel. :) Maybe it was just that one (Microsoft Access) that didn't like me directly opening it. O.O