I'm using XP Home. When saving an email in 'Message format' within
one of my files, the envelope icon is too similar to the standard folder
icon. Can I change the Outlook envelope icon for something else -
what choices do I have and how can I do it so that
the new icon becomes the default icon?

Start - Run - explorer
Tools - Folder Options - File types Tab
Click on MSG and press the Advanced button.
Click on Change Icon...
These icons will be all the Outlook icons you have available.

There's also the icons in C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll, as well
as lots of other possible locations.

Hello again FHM - tried your route and changed the icon - this new icon
now shown in the 'change' dialogue box heading - so change confirmed.
BUT this has not gone to the icons in customer files - not even after
a recent
'save as' and re-start. Any ideas why not?

I have no idea why windows won't honor the change. Even deleting the
icon cache won't change it.

Huh. That is weird. I didn't actually even change mine, just assumed it'd
work,
since, y'know, that's how you do it.

I'm tempted to suggest posting to the xp.general newsgroup, just because
this is really a feature of Windows, but, I almost wonder if Outlook is
somehow overriding the situation.

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f.h.
Microsoft Outlook MVP