IE Favorites Icons

[Armani]

Anyone know why the icons that download from some sites
when you add them to your favorites don't stay there
after you've shutdown your pc? they did on my old system
that ran NT, but don't seem to with XP for some reason.

 

[DVarnau]

Hi,
[ Repost]
These are known as favicons.ico (Favorite Icons) and they normally will only
last until your Internet Explorer Temp files are cleared.

You need to get a program called FavOrg 1.4 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/files/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

http://www.liemar.com.br/construindoseusite/downloads/favorg.zip
http://www.themes.myqth.com/Downloads/favorg.zip

(still free at these links) which will allow you to save them permanently
in a different folder and re-associate your favorites with the stored icons.
(It will also verify whether your links in Favorites are stll good, BTW.)

If you want to read more about it first, go here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9883,00.asp

You can also try FavIoncizer, here:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp?target=favicons I've used
this and it's quite good,. It will actually find about a third more than
FavOrg does (since it checks for referenced URL's), but lacks some of the
other cababilites of FavOrg, Recommended.
Jim Byrd
[End repost]

Don

 

[Guest]

Anyone know why the icons that download from some sites
when you add them to your favorites don't stay there
after you've shutdown your pc?

Its because they are stored in the browser cache (TIF).

To make them permanent, perform the following:
* 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