Favorite icons

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Philip

why do the custom website icons dragged to the favorites
from the internet address url bar change back to the
standard explorer icons suddenly. Is there a way to stop
this?
 
Hi Philip - These are known as favicons.ico (Favorite Icons) and they
normally will only last until your Internet Explorer Temp files are cleared.

You need to get a program called FavOrg 1.4 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/files/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

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

(still free at these links) which will allow you to save them permanently
in a different folder and re-associate your favorites with the stored icons.
(It will also verify whether your links in Favorites are stll good, BTW.)

If you want to read more about it first, go here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9883,00.asp

You can also try FavIoncizer, here:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp?target=favicons I've used
this and it's quite good,. It will actually find about a third more than
FavOrg does (since it checks for referenced URL's), but lacks some of the
other cababilites of FavOrg, Recommended.


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Philip -

That has been known to happen. There are also other reasons as well. New
icons "force out or empty" preceding ones. These "Favicons", as they are
known, are stored in the TIF's, and can be lost when the file is cleared.
Not always, but many times.

To keep these favicons, you can follow a couple of routes. Some choose to
use a program such as Favorg1.4 or Faviconizer. Both freeware.

Favorg
http://www.gratilog.net/internet2.htm

Faviconizer
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp

I prefer the following as it is more stable, doesn't require an additional
program, is ultimately faster, and doesn'y get disrupted if one uses
TweakUI, Sysicon Cleaner, or renew the Shelliconcache.

When you notice a "favicon", use Start>Find>Files and folders. *COPY* (DO
NOT CUT) the favicon from the folder in which it is found. Then paste it
into a folder which you will name Icons (for example) and keep that folder
in your C:Drive (for example). Rename the icon whatever you want to name it,
as any found will always be called favicon(1). Then you can change the
standard IE icon to your favicon by R-Click>properties>change
icon>browse>C>icons>the icon in question>OK>Apply>OK out.

Seems long, but it is Stable and will last until *you* want to change it.
Plus you don't have to use Favorg to scan each URL which can be many if you
have a lot of favorites, and also have it "time out" on you.
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