desktop icons

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Cian Dowling

why... please tell me why my desktop icons that i have to
my favorite websites dissapear and change to the generic
internet explorer icons. do they get deleted from a cache
of some sort. i am so sick of this happening.
 
please tell me why my desktop icons that i have to
| my favorite websites dissapear and change to the generic
| internet explorer icons. do they get deleted from a cache
| of some sort.

They don't get deleted from a cache, though the cache can get crowded
and corrupted. You can increase the cache's size to prevent this from
happening.

An easy way to increase and purge the icon cache is with the free
ActivIcons utility from http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html

1-- go to its "Desktop Controls" screen and increase the icon cache
size to at least 2048, and then

2-- rebuild the icon cache. The options for rebuilding the cache are
on 2 small round buttons at the lower/right corner. Shut down any
programs running in the background, then click the round button
farthest to the lower/right corner (your system will reboot, and any
old, unused icons in the cache will be cleaned out).

Or you can try increasing the cache size by manually inserting a key
into the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer

here you need to add the key "Max Cached Icons" with a value of 2048
or higher.





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Cian Dowling said:
why... please tell me why my desktop icons that i have to
my favorite websites dissapear and change to the generic
internet explorer icons. do they get deleted from a cache
of some sort. i am so sick of this happening.
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Perhaps you're referring the the special icons, sometimes called
"favicons" supplied by the web site. These icons are stored in your
Temporary Internet Files folder and will be deleted when that folder is
cleared. The icon should be restored if you return to the site which
supplied it. There are third-party programs which manage these better
than Windows does, but in my opinion they're not worth the trouble, and
the one I tried is no longer free.
 
| Perhaps you're referring the the special icons, sometimes called
| "favicons" supplied by the web site.

Yup, Gary's answer more directly answers the question than mine. I
skipped right over the word "website" before answering.





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