Icons for saved favorites in IE6

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Carol

Each time I add a favorite that has it's own icon (example
is Yahoo with the little red Y), and I close the browser
and open it again, the icon is changed to the blue e. I
would rather have the icons from the actual sites.

What do I do?
 
The favorites icons are deleted once the Temporary Internet Files are
cleared. This is by design.

The program "FavOrg" preserves the favorites icon permanently. You may
download it from:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,108438,00.asp

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Each time I add a favorite that has it's own icon (example
is Yahoo with the little red Y), and I close the browser
and open it again, the icon is changed to the blue e. I
would rather have the icons from the actual sites.

What do I do?
 
Ramesh said:
The favorites icons are deleted once the Temporary Internet Files are
cleared. This is by design.
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OH PU-LEEEZE... spare us the "Official MS Party-Line BS!"
It makes no sense that a vendor would supply a feature, then randomly (at
least from customer POV) take it away, with no apparent way of restoring it
or making it permanent. This is clearly an oversight, not a design decision.

To the OP, here is a way of accomplishing the same thing, w/o adding 3rd
party s/w (remember the "give a man a fish / teach a man to fish" story?)...
Those icons are known as "Favicons." To make them permanent:
* Manually clear TIF
* Save page as favorite (Favicon is only downloaded during this step)
* Open 2 windows side by side -- the TIF view from within IE, and
a Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) window, set to the
folder/directory you wish to store the Favicons in.
* Drag-n-drop favicon.ico from TIF to the Explorer folder
* Rt-click on the Favorite, click Properties, then Web Document
* Invoke "Change Icon..." dialog and set to the .ico file you just dragged
* Repeat for each site
 
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