xMarkx
July 14th, 2011, 07:11 AM
Hello,
I recently bought Office 2010 Professional Plus and installed it on my HP Pavilion dm4 laptop. When I created a word document in Microsoft Word 2010, saved it, and closed it and then reopened it, it opened with Word Starter that shipped with the laptop. I corrected this by changing the original default application for opening word documents from "Microsoft Office Client Virtualization Handler" (which came with Office Starter I guess) to the correct Microsoft Word 2010. It now opens automatically with Microsoft Word 2010.
However, now all the pretty Office 2010 icons (see screenshot) have been replaced by a white page with lines and "DOCX" at the bottom (see screenshot). This is annoying because they don't stand out as word documents anymore, decreasing productivity. I've googled this problem all night and couldn't find any solutions that work.
I attempted to reset the file assocation in Control Panel -> Default Programs with no success. I have tried uninstalling Office Starter and the Microsoft Office Client Virtualization Handler, but that didn't work, so then I reinstalled Office 2010 Professional Plus, and that still didn't work.
It definitely has something to do with Office Starter (which comes with Word and Excel) because Word and Excel are the only Office applications that are effected.
Does anybody know what I can do to get the Microsoft Word 2010 icons back while also having documents open with Microsoft Word 2010 (instead of Starter) by default?
Thank you for any help.
I recently bought Office 2010 Professional Plus and installed it on my HP Pavilion dm4 laptop. When I created a word document in Microsoft Word 2010, saved it, and closed it and then reopened it, it opened with Word Starter that shipped with the laptop. I corrected this by changing the original default application for opening word documents from "Microsoft Office Client Virtualization Handler" (which came with Office Starter I guess) to the correct Microsoft Word 2010. It now opens automatically with Microsoft Word 2010.
However, now all the pretty Office 2010 icons (see screenshot) have been replaced by a white page with lines and "DOCX" at the bottom (see screenshot). This is annoying because they don't stand out as word documents anymore, decreasing productivity. I've googled this problem all night and couldn't find any solutions that work.
I attempted to reset the file assocation in Control Panel -> Default Programs with no success. I have tried uninstalling Office Starter and the Microsoft Office Client Virtualization Handler, but that didn't work, so then I reinstalled Office 2010 Professional Plus, and that still didn't work.
It definitely has something to do with Office Starter (which comes with Word and Excel) because Word and Excel are the only Office applications that are effected.
Does anybody know what I can do to get the Microsoft Word 2010 icons back while also having documents open with Microsoft Word 2010 (instead of Starter) by default?
Thank you for any help.