webpage icons (famicons)

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Joe

when restoring the backups in vista backup and restore after reinstalling
windows webpage shortcuts which had their own unique icons such as hsbc
having their logo as an icon have all dissapered. How can i get them to
return to my webpage shortcuts on my desktop?

thanks in adv.
 
Joe

I had the same problem of webpage icons changing. I finally made my own
using the Snipping tool and MS paint program.
This was posted on this newsgroup some time ago. Briefly: Use the snipping
tool to capture any logo or what ever you want from the computer screen
(Something about the finished size that you want works best). The Snipping
tool allows you to save the image as a .jpg file. Open the file with MS
Paint and then resave the file as type 24-bit Bitmap. This changes the file
format. Now resave a third time but manually change the extension to .ico
(I would think you could just change the file name from an .bmp extension to
..ico extension also). Now go to the desktop shortcut , right click, select
properties, change icon. Point to the .ico file you just created. Click on
OK , OK to change the icon selection.

Stuart
 
Stuart Sabatini said:
Joe

I had the same problem of webpage icons changing. I finally made my own
using the Snipping tool and MS paint program.
This was posted on this newsgroup some time ago. Briefly: Use the snipping
tool to capture any logo or what ever you want from the computer screen
(Something about the finished size that you want works best). The
Snipping
tool allows you to save the image as a .jpg file. Open the file with MS
Paint and then resave the file as type 24-bit Bitmap. This changes the
file
format. Now resave a third time but manually change the extension to .ico
(I would think you could just change the file name from an .bmp extension
to
.ico extension also). Now go to the desktop shortcut , right click,
select
properties, change icon. Point to the .ico file you just created. Click
on
OK , OK to change the icon selection.
Click to expand...


Instead of resorting to making your own favicon, you can just get the
original one from the site, and apply that in the same way.

Just go to www.DOMAINNAME.com/favicon.ico

eg. www.microsoft.com/favicon.ico

ss.
 
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