Desktop Icon Changes Itself

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For example: MSN Hotmail's icon is a "butterfly", in Favorites. It WAS a
butterfly, on the desktop shortcut. The desktop icon changed (on its' own)
to the lower case blue "e". The Favorites icon remains a butterfly. How can
I get the desktop icon to again show the butterfly?
Notes:
O/S = Windows XP Professional SP2
IE6 SP2
Issue occurs only on this PC - i.e. a second PC, on the home network
(WinXPHome), continues to show the butterfly on the desktop icon.
This issue is for all proprioritory URL's i.e. US Bank, Google, etc.)
 
you should be able to right click, properties, change icon, and navigate all
over your hard drive to set it to anything you like.
 
This is true. But, it doesn't help. I can not find the icons, e.g the
Google "G", that I lost. I rebooted the PC, as required for upgrades, and
the lost icons reappeared. However, your method would be more partical, if
the icons disappear again. It may be that I am not browsing correctly.
Thanks anyway. tede
 
Those icons, called "favicons" are stored in your cache, or Temporary
Internet Files folder. When you clear that folder, or that icon gets
over-written due to age or file space requirements of the folder, the
favicon is lost. To make them permanent you'll have to find them in the TIF,
copy them to a separate folder and rename them.

The easiest way to keep your favicons permanent is to use a third-party
utility -

FavOrg http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,6679,00.asp

If you don't subscribe to PCMag's downloads, you can also get it here:
Version 1.4 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

http://www.liemar.com.br/construindoseusite/downloads/favorg.zip

Great little program that not only saves your favicons, but checks your
Favorites for dead or redirected links, etc.

Or you can try these programs:

FavIconizer: http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp
AM-Deadlink: http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm

More information on favicons:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/favicon.htm
http://www.favicon.com/index.jsp?id=Internet+Explorer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp
 
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