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funny enough every time i bookmark a website-like say espn.com, and add it to
favorites, the explorer icon is displayed next to the webpage instead of the
page's own icon. obviously this is a default setting in my explorer that
makes the explorer icon appear. How do i fix this? pls help.
 
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 05:36:09 -0700, acolcheia

|funny enough every time i bookmark a website-like say espn.com, and add it to
|favorites, the explorer icon is displayed next to the webpage instead of the
|page's own icon. obviously this is a default setting in my explorer that
|makes the explorer icon appear. How do i fix this? pls help.
Google 'favorite icons'. When TIF is cleared they r
deleted unless u put them somewhere.

HTH-Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.
 
Those icons, called "favicons" are stored in your cache, or Temporary
Internet Files folder. When you clear that folder, or that icon gets
over-written due to age or file space requirements of the folder, the
favicon is lost. To make them permanent you'll have to find them in the TIF,
copy them to a separate folder and rename them.

The easiest way to keep your favicons permanent is to use a third-party
utility -

FavOrg http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,6679,00.asp

If you don't subscribe to PCMag's downloads, you can also get it here:
Version 1.4 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

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

Great little program that not only saves your favicons, but checks your
Favorites for dead or redirected links, etc.

Or you can try this program:

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

More information on favicons:

http://www.favicon.com/index.jsp?id=Internet+Explorer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp
 
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