Icon pictures in address bar and Favorites menu

[Miles]

When you visit certain web sites in IE they will have
unique icons that are displayed in the address bar window
& are shown when you save the site to your Favorites
menu. For some reason this feature has stopped working
and the only icon that is shown is the default IE icon.
This feature works fine in other browsers like Mozilla
or Avant.
If anyone can help, I would be very grateful. Thanks!

 

[Smoker]

When you visit certain web sites in IE they will have
unique icons that are displayed in the address bar window
& are shown when you save the site to your Favorites
menu. For some reason this feature has stopped working
and the only icon that is shown is the default IE icon.
This feature works fine in other browsers like Mozilla
or Avant.
If anyone can help, I would be very grateful. Thanks!

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IE saves these to temp. so they disappear in short time. To find the icon on
a particular site, use the base URL and add /favicon.ico at the end as in
http://microsoft.com/favicon.ico It will come up on a blank page where you
can save it. The extension doesn't matter whether .ico .bmp etc. The go to
that link in your Favorites, right click on it, choose Properties, then
change the icon to wherever you saved it/them.

 

[LuckyStrike]

Miles -

These icons -called favicons - can be lost when the TIF's are cleared. They
can also be "overwritten in some instances.

Use a program like Favorg or Faviconizer to "maintain" the favicons. This
site offers Favorg1.4 as freeware.

Favorg1.4
http://www.gratilog.net/internet2.htm

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

My choice -having used apps such as those I mentioned - is to not use them,
but rather *COPY* a favicon from the TIF's into a folder cleverly called
"Icons" <s> which I keep in my C Drive. Then when a site has a favicon, I
simply COPY it to that folder and re-name it whatever I want. *Never cut the
icon from the TIF's* - you will corrupt the Index.dat file. Thereafter it is
a relatively simple process: R-Click IE Icon>Properties>change icon>Browse
to folder>select icon of choice>OK>Apply>OK out. They will never be lost
again, even if one uses TweakUI or SysiconCleaner, or renews the
ShelliconCache.

Use Find>Files and folders favicon (or sometimes "wildcard" *.ico in
the TIFs/ Content.IE5 folder) to find them rapidly.

For any given Icon which you had and is now lost, re-visit the web site.
Sometimes they will re-load the icon, and then keep the new page as a
Favorite or shortcut. You can also do a Google>image>"blah-blah website"
icon search. For instance:
http://images.google.com/images?q=yahoo+icon&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=G&imgsz=icon

Then, using a photo editor such as IrfanView (for instance) which is
freeware, save and resize the icon to 32 x 32 pixels as an .ico file. Place
it in your newly created Icon folder and follow the aforementioned process
to create long lasting (read permanent) icons that do not disappear like a
scent in the wind.

HTH -
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[Guest]

Thanks for the help! Miles

-----Original Message-----


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IE saves these to temp. so they disappear in short time. To find the icon on
a particular site, use the base URL and add /favicon.ico at the end as in
http://microsoft.com/favicon.ico It will come up on a blank page where you
can save it. The extension doesn't matter

whether .ico .bmp etc. The go to

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the great info, you have been a big help.
Miles

-----Original Message-----
Miles -

These icons -called favicons - can be lost when the TIF's are cleared. They
can also be "overwritten in some instances.

Use a program like Favorg or Faviconizer to "maintain" the favicons. This
site offers Favorg1.4 as freeware.

Favorg1.4
http://www.gratilog.net/internet2.htm

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

My choice -having used apps such as those I mentioned - is to not use them,
but rather *COPY* a favicon from the TIF's into a folder cleverly called
"Icons" <s> which I keep in my C Drive. Then when a site has a favicon, I
simply COPY it to that folder and re-name it whatever I want. *Never cut the
icon from the TIF's* - you will corrupt the Index.dat file. Thereafter it is
a relatively simple process: R-Click IE

Icon>Properties>change icon>Browse

to folder>select icon of choice>OK>Apply>OK out. They will never be lost
again, even if one uses TweakUI or SysiconCleaner, or renews the
ShelliconCache.

Use Find>Files and folders favicon (or

sometimes "wildcard" *.ico in

the TIFs/ Content.IE5 folder) to find them rapidly.

For any given Icon which you had and is now lost, re- visit the web site.
Sometimes they will re-load the icon, and then keep the new page as a
Favorite or shortcut. You can also do a

Google>image>"blah-blah website"

 

[LuckyStrike]

Miles of smiles from..... Miles! :-D You are most welcome Miles.
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