Icons on desktop

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My desk top, like everyone else's has a number of shortcut icons. I am finding that these change for no apparent reason. For instance, many should be the true logo of the source eg Yahoo has its own distinctive badge and so do many others. What seems to happen, though, is that these icons change to the standard MS one - the small e and a document sheet and therefore are less distictive. Is there anything I can do about this

Thanks in advance

Hercules
 
Try right clicking a desktop Icon, and properties,
click - change Icon, click the browse button, select the one you want.

Hercules said:
My desk top, like everyone else's has a number of shortcut icons. I am
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finding that these change for no apparent reason. For instance, many should
be the true logo of the source eg Yahoo has its own distinctive badge and so
do many others. What seems to happen, though, is that these icons change to
the standard MS one - the small e and a document sheet and therefore are
less distictive. Is there anything I can do about this?
 
The icon associated with URLs (i.e. shortcuts to web sites) are different
from icons for programs (which may be built into the executable or stored
externally in the program directory). They are downloaded when you view a
the Web page (if the Web site has created a file called favicon.ico) and
stored with Temporary Internet Files. When you clear your tif cache, they
are deleted so the shortcut reverts to the generic Internet Explorer icon.
At one time I recall seeing a third party utility to preserve them (possibly
from PC Mag), but there's no native mechanism in Windows to support this.
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Hercules said:
My desk top, like everyone else's has a number of shortcut icons. I am
Click to expand...
finding that these change for no apparent reason. For instance, many should
be the true logo of the source eg Yahoo has its own distinctive badge and so
do many others. What seems to happen, though, is that these icons change to
the standard MS one - the small e and a document sheet and therefore are
less distictive. Is there anything I can do about this?
 
Yes there is. Stop cleaning out your temporary internet files. That is where
the favicon.ico is located.

Or, you could copy and rename the favicon.ico to another location and point
to the icon in that location, as I do.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

Hercules said:
My desk top, like everyone else's has a number of shortcut icons. I am
Click to expand...
finding that these change for no apparent reason. For instance, many should
be the true logo of the source eg Yahoo has its own distinctive badge and so
do many others. What seems to happen, though, is that these icons change to
the standard MS one - the small e and a document sheet and therefore are
less distictive. Is there anything I can do about this?
 
Go to the following link and scroll down to FavOrg. It will restore the
favicons.

HTH, JAX

Hercules said:
My desk top, like everyone else's has a number of shortcut icons. I am
Click to expand...
finding that these change for no apparent reason. For instance, many should
be the true logo of the source eg Yahoo has its own distinctive badge and so
do many others. What seems to happen, though, is that these icons change to
the standard MS one - the small e and a document sheet and therefore are
less distictive. Is there anything I can do about this?
 
thanx for the site, JAX. one question tho, would this work for the
shortcut icons as well????
 
Hi Lois,

If you are asking about shortcuts to favorites you have placed on the
desktop, I assume it will. I don't use desktop icons so I can't say for
sure. Since I use FavOrg, all of my favorites already have the favacons so
it would not prove anything if I were to send one to the desktop to see.

LOL, JAX
 
actually they are the shortcuts i have put directly on my desktop, and not
in my favorites... (is this not what "Hercules" was refering to) that the
website was not in both places... so maybe i'll just put them all into my
fav so i don't have to look at the MS "e" staring back at me... thanx
again...
 
Hi Lois,

Download and install FavOrg and give it a try, it won't hurt anything. If
you don't like it, or it doesn't do what you want, just uninstall it.

LOL, JAX
 
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