icon???

[L.S.]

Not a big deal but more of a curiosity.
4 system. All have Winxp(home), IE7

On two of the system the small icon to the left of a url in Favorites is the
'normal' MS icon.
On two systems the icons match the web site it points to.
Ex: www.google.com has a large "G" instead of the MS icon.

What's going on?

 

[Alan Edwards]

They are called Favicons
You can look here and see how the author does it:

How to Add a Shortcut Icon to a Web Page
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537656.aspx

Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
To make them permanent:
FavOrg-PCMag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp

or

The Code Project - FavIconizer:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp

or

AM-DeadLink - Download FavIcons and detect dead Browser Bookmarks:
http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm


If the above is not relevant for IE7....

Please try the IE7 group.
The recommended newsgroup is microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In a proper newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

If you must use a web interface:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

....Alan

 

[L.S.]

Thanks for the info.
Not sure what I did to get them on 2 system but not the others.
Will bookmark microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

L.S.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
Clearing the Temporary Internet Files and History may be enough to get
Favicons working.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[L.S.]

Cleared everything but no go on two systems.
Not a big deal, just wondering..

thanks,

Hi,
Clearing the Temporary Internet Files and History may be enough to get
Favicons working.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Thanks for the info.
Not sure what I did to get them on 2 system but not the others.
Will bookmark microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

L.S.

 

[L.S.]

Correct that. This one is working now.

Cleared everything but no go on two systems.
Not a big deal, just wondering..

thanks,

Hi,
Clearing the Temporary Internet Files and History may be enough to get
Favicons working.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Thanks for the info.
Not sure what I did to get them on 2 system but not the others.
Will bookmark microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

L.S.

They are called Favicons
You can look here and see how the author does it:

How to Add a Shortcut Icon to a Web Page
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537656.aspx

Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
To make them permanent:
FavOrg-PCMag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp

or

The Code Project - FavIconizer:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp

or

AM-DeadLink - Download FavIcons and detect dead Browser Bookmarks:
http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm


If the above is not relevant for IE7....

Please try the IE7 group.
The recommended newsgroup is microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In a proper newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

If you must use a web interface:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:46:38 -0600, in
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "L.S."

Not a big deal but more of a curiosity.
4 system. All have Winxp(home), IE7

On two of the system the small icon to the left of a url in Favorites
is
the
'normal' MS icon.
On two systems the icons match the web site it points to.
Ex: www.google.com has a large "G" instead of the MS icon.

What's going on?

 

[Don Varnau]

Good, because I don't know of anything else to try. ;-)

Don
[MS MVP- IE]