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well - all the above may be irrelevant know. When I installed Audacity 2.1.0 on my friends laptop running Win7 and Office 2010, there were NO observable issues with icon appearance or anything else. I therefore tried to install v 2.1.0 again on my desktop and on this occasion everything went to plan...

There has been a bug affecting Office icons on 64-bit systems for years (going back to at least Office 2003 and still not fixed in Office 2010). I'm rather surprised that you were not able to find some reference to this bug yourself - just a quick search of Google brought up millions of hits for me...

yes

What difference would it make if it was 32 or 64bit?
Thanks

Yes I am the SAME user . What a surprise.

I posted this query on your forum as per a suggestion made by an MVP on the Microsoft community forum. However from the response from Steve, it would appear that I am alone in respect to this issue.

I will therefore try the other suggestions put forward.

I have windows 7 Home Edition and Office 2010. When I upgraded to Audacity v.2.1.0, I found that the icon for Excel changed its appearance to that of an unrecognised file type as per attachment. UNKNOWN FILE TYPE ICON.jpg Clicking on this icon STILL opened Excel but I couldnt understand why the icon...