Hello Tika, nice talking to you !  

 TC> That's because Vista auto-creates the .lnk or .pif, as does previous
 TC> versions of Windows. Though I didn't get a bw icon when I tried it. I
 TC> had to manually set it.
 
        Previous versions of Widows, you meant Office ??, did not do
   this, at least not for me. It did the shortcut but did not crunge
   the icon. Mind you this blue? works as good.

 TC> That's Vista for ya. :( I think they are trying hard to do away with
 TC> DOS yet they really can't fully. I prefer to use a custom toolbar on
 TC> the desktop since I don't have Office. I use OpenOffice.org instead.
 TC> Free, and compatible with MS Office files.

        I would be happy with OO too if I did not have Win O2K, it
   does for me wheat I need done. Let me stick my neck out a bit here
   and say that Vista is doing great here too.
     
       
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