

I think this happened Wednesday, the day after a batch of MS automatic downloads were applied, when I shut the PC down. docx) extensions, have the solid orange colored icons next to the documents name.The documents open fine and all of the functions work, I can write letters and save them to my heart's content. If I use Windows Explorer, approx 90% of the documents (. If you hit Start, drag to Documents, the recently worked on documents list comes up, with proper colored icons except for the one with the desktop shortcut. It is just the body of the icon/shortcut is solid orange in color. It has the correct name of the Word document that it is a shortcut to, but as I said, no blue color ,or the W letter. It still has the folded over edge on upper r/s. After the cold boot on 9-12-13, the two desktop shortcuts were a solid orange color, with no letter W in the upper l/s. Up until a few days ago, they looked like the usual MS Word icon or shortcut: A blue colored page of paper, folded over a bit in the upper r/s corner, and the capital letter W on the l/s upper of the icon/shortcut. I have shortcut icons for (2) MS Word 2010 ("starter pack", the one with the advertisements in the r/lower page) documents on my desktop.You know, the screen that appears after the PC boots up completely, with the Start Button, Search Bar, the task bar at the bottom, etc. You young "whipper snappers" ( man, am I getting old.) have no idea what us "greybeards" had to go through- need I say more than the much anticipated Win 95 and the subsequent tsunami of Blue Screens Of Death? Thanks USOP31 How I yearn for WFW 3.11, and converting my AOL speed to 9600 baud. I suppose I could use the last Win Restore point, but less is usually more when dealing with these MS sleds. SYS INFO: Studio XPS 8100, Intel i5 Core CPU 3.2GHz, 8 GB SDRAM, 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, dual CD/CDR/ DVD/DVD-R optical drives, 10/100 Ethernet card, Win 7 64 bit Home Premium OS, 1 GB Radeon 5450HD video card. I wish they would slow down with putting out the next version of Win, and get one that doesn't need multiple security patches almost every week. I've been cage fighting MS OSs and programs since 1993, but this is a new one for me.

If go to Windows Explorer, virtually every icon is solid bright orange.

docx files w/normal blue/white colored Word shortcuts icons.

I can go Start-MS Word 2010-the pop up list has almost all the. Hello All, Booted up today and noticed the two MS Word 2010 (Starter Version) desktop shortcuts were solid bright orange.
