How to change "Favicons"??

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Drew Moreland

When a web site is saved as a "Favorite" in XP-SP 2, it often begins life
with an icon of its own...something unique that's given to it by the web
page coding. Within a day or two, that icon disappears and is replaced by
the generic Explorer "E".

I seem to remember that there is a procedure by which the original icon can
be retained and prevented from morphing in the "Blue E".

Can someone help me with this procedure??
 
Drew,

The way I've always done it is to save the icon (either by finding it in the
TIF folder, or lifting it straight from the web page) in a folder on my HD.

Then I right-click the shortcut to the web page, select "properties", click
"Change Icon", then browse to the icon file that I saved.

HTH Tony.
 
Tony,

I had read about just this way of doing what I want, but I can't locate the
icons in my TIF. I've gone through those files line-by-line looking for the
web sites that they belong to and have found nothing. Many of my favs have
unique icons associated with them but I have no idea where they are stored.
 
Thank you, Alan...

FavOrg seems to be doing what I wanted to do. I appreciate you help!
 
You have to search your temporary internet files for "favicon" while the
icon is still present for the web page. If you clear the temporary internet
files, or another program does it during a scheduled cleanup, the icon will
be gone.

When you find the icon you want, copy it with a distinct name - such as
CNN.ico to another folder. Then point the shortcut in internet explorer to
the saved icon. I have about 75 saved icons in a folder within "My
Documents/Saved Icons" on drive D:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
One of the things that puzzles me about all of this is that a significant
number (about 1/3) of my 500+ bookmarks now have unique icons associated
with them. These icons had to have been stored somewhere or the "FavOrg"
utility would not have been able to apply them. I did nothing to save these
icons when I first visited the web site, so I'm puzzled about why some of
them were available to be resurrected while others were not. I limit my TIFs
to about 100 megs and clear them about twice a month so icons for sites
visited months ago would have been gone from the TIF.
 
Drew Moreland said:
Thank you, Alan...

FavOrg seems to be doing what I wanted to do. I appreciate you help!
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This might be helpful as the second link is free

This programe (favorg) is something I downloaded years ago and retains all
icons in there original format. I just had a quick look and they now want
paying for it..you might find it using google for free. The other method
was to go to your temp folder and save the original temp icon to another
folder, Not quite sure how this was done but I am sure you will get help
from others.
Bob

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1558477,00.asp (favorg)
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this might be better
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Bookmark-Managers/favorg.shtml
 
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