I am using IE6 sp1 on Windows ME, and was wondering why the favicons aren't
showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web addresses
the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the favicons
never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar like
it used to?

Hi Faldo :-)

Take a look at the following information and see if it helps:

Favicons not showing or lost

Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out if
it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs and
webhosts now support favicons

IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.

FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.


To save them permanently in a different folder and re-associate your
favorites with the stored icons.
It also verifies if Favorites links are still good.

FavInocizer, here:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/fav...arget=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.

To preserve the Favicons manually,

Visit a site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
Look at the line reading IconFile:

Example:
IconFile=http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
Now, type http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and save
the .ico file locally.
Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.

Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.

Courtesy of Ramesh -

Hope this helps

Jan
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


>I am using IE6 sp1 on Windows ME, and was wondering why the favicons aren't
> showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web
> addresses
> the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the
> favicons
> never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar
> like
> it used to?

Thanks for the info Jan, but I am really not interested in saving them onto
my system. Just would like to know how do I have the websites favicons show
up in the address bar when visiting various websites. It used to be that the
favicons would show in the address bar along with the url of the website you
are visiting. They used to show, but no more.

"Jan Il" wrote:

> Hi Faldo :-)
>
> Take a look at the following information and see if it helps:
>
> Favicons not showing or lost
>
> Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out if
> it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs and
> webhosts now support favicons
>
> IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
> clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.
>
> FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
> Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
>
>
> To save them permanently in a different folder and re-associate your
> favorites with the stored icons.
> It also verifies if Favorites links are still good.
>
> FavInocizer, here:
> http://www.codeproject.com/tools/fav...arget=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.
>
> To preserve the Favicons manually,
>
> Visit a site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
> Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
> Look at the line reading IconFile:
>
> Example:
> IconFile=http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
> Now, type http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and save
> the .ico file locally.
> Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.
>
> Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.
>
> Courtesy of Ramesh -
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jan
> Smiles are meant to be shared,
> that's why they're so contagious.
>
> Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
> How to make a good newsgroup post:
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> >I am using IE6 sp1 on Windows ME, and was wondering why the favicons aren't
> > showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web
> > addresses
> > the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the
> > favicons
> > never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar
> > like
> > it used to?
>
>
>

Hi Faldo :-)


Are the Favorites there, but, not the icons for them? Or are the Favorites
also missing? That could be a different problem.

According to the information I provided regarding favicons being kept in the
Temporary Internet Files folder. It is possible that your TIF's have been
flushed and therefore, you no longer have the favicons. You may have to
revisit the sites from the Address bar in order to reset them in your TIF
folder. Also, check your History to be sure it is properly recording your
Internet visits to set the favicons.

Jan
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm



> Thanks for the info Jan, but I am really not interested in saving them
> onto
> my system. Just would like to know how do I have the websites favicons
> show
> up in the address bar when visiting various websites. It used to be that
> the
> favicons would show in the address bar along with the url of the website
> you
> are visiting. They used to show, but no more.
>
> "Jan Il" wrote:
>
>> Hi Faldo :-)
>>
>> Take a look at the following information and see if it helps:
>>
>> Favicons not showing or lost
>>
>> Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out
>> if
>> it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs
>> and
>> webhosts now support favicons
>>
>> IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
>> clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.
>>
>> FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
>> Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
>>
>>
>> To save them permanently in a different folder and re-associate your
>> favorites with the stored icons.
>> It also verifies if Favorites links are still good.
>>
>> FavInocizer, here:
>> http://www.codeproject.com/tools/fav...arget=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.
>>
>> To preserve the Favicons manually,
>>
>> Visit a site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
>> Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
>> Look at the line reading IconFile:
>>
>> Example:
>> IconFile=http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
>> Now, type http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and
>> save
>> the .ico file locally.
>> Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.
>>
>> Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.
>>
>> Courtesy of Ramesh -
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Jan
>> Smiles are meant to be shared,
>> that's why they're so contagious.
>>
>> Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
>> readers.
>> How to make a good newsgroup post:
>> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>
>>
>> >I am using IE6 sp1 on Windows ME, and was wondering why the favicons
>> >aren't
>> > showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web
>> > addresses
>> > the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the
>> > favicons
>> > never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar
>> > like
>> > it used to?
>>
>>
>>

Jan has provided you with the answer. Favicons are stored in your browser's
cache - the Temporary Internet Files folder. Somehow, they've gotten erased
or disassociated from your IE. The best thing to do to get them all back
would either be to totally clear out your TIF per this site:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm - and then visit the sites that
use favicons again.

Or, you could use this little tool that will get them back for all your
Favorites, and permanently store them in a file where they will not be
erased when the TIF is cleared or becomes corrupted:

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/construindo...ads/favorg.zip

And for more information on favicons, how they work, how web site authors
use them, etc.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...ortcutIcon.asp
http://www.favicon.com/index.jsp?id=Internet+Explorer

--

Jon R. Kennedy
Charlotte, NC, USA
(E-Mail Removed)

"Faldo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F4D90698-7725-4129-B7FF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the info Jan, but I am really not interested in saving them
> onto
> my system. Just would like to know how do I have the websites favicons
> show
> up in the address bar when visiting various websites. It used to be that
> the
> favicons would show in the address bar along with the url of the website
> you
> are visiting. They used to show, but no more.
>
> "Jan Il" wrote:
>
>> Hi Faldo :-)
>>
>> Take a look at the following information and see if it helps:
>>
>> Favicons not showing or lost
>>
>> Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out
>> if
>> it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs
>> and
>> webhosts now support favicons
>>
>> IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
>> clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.
>>
>> FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
>> Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
>>
>>
>> To save them permanently in a different folder and re-associate your
>> favorites with the stored icons.
>> It also verifies if Favorites links are still good.
>>
>> FavInocizer, here:
>> http://www.codeproject.com/tools/fav...arget=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.
>>
>> To preserve the Favicons manually,
>>
>> Visit a site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
>> Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
>> Look at the line reading IconFile:
>>
>> Example:
>> IconFile=http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
>> Now, type http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and
>> save
>> the .ico file locally.
>> Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.
>>
>> Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.
>>
>> Courtesy of Ramesh -
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Jan
>> Smiles are meant to be shared,
>> that's why they're so contagious.
>>
>> Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
>> readers.
>> How to make a good newsgroup post:
>> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>
>>
>> >I am using IE6 sp1 on Windows ME, and was wondering why the favicons
>> >aren't
>> > showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web
>> > addresses
>> > the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the
>> > favicons
>> > never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar
>> > like
>> > it used to?
>>
>>
>>

I must be missing something here.
Isn't a favicon an icon some websites use as a logo to represent their site?
Aren't favicons suppose to show up in the address bar when visiting websites
that offer favicons? If so, do the favicons show up in the address bar even
though the website is not in my favorites folder?
Lets say I go to www.google.com, should the "G" which is the google favicon
show in the address bar even though google.com is not in my favorites folder.
I remember a while back that when I used to visit various sites there used to
be an icon in the address bar.
Please correct me if I'm straying off the beaten path?
"Jan Il" wrote:

> Hi Faldo :-)
>
>
> Are the Favorites there, but, not the icons for them? Or are the Favorites
> also missing? That could be a different problem.
>
> According to the information I provided regarding favicons being kept in the
> Temporary Internet Files folder. It is possible that your TIF's have been
> flushed and therefore, you no longer have the favicons. You may have to
> revisit the sites from the Address bar in order to reset them in your TIF
> folder. Also, check your History to be sure it is properly recording your
> Internet visits to set the favicons.
>
> Jan
> Smiles are meant to be shared,
> that's why they're so contagious.
>
> Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
> How to make a good newsgroup post:
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
>
> > Thanks for the info Jan, but I am really not interested in saving them
> > onto
> > my system. Just would like to know how do I have the websites favicons
> > show
> > up in the address bar when visiting various websites. It used to be that
> > the
> > favicons would show in the address bar along with the url of the website
> > you
> > are visiting. They used to show, but no more.
> >
> > "Jan Il" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Faldo :-)
> >>
> >> Take a look at the following information and see if it helps:
> >>
> >> Favicons not showing or lost
> >>
> >> Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out
> >> if
> >> it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs
> >> and
> >> webhosts now support favicons
> >>
> >> IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
> >> clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.
> >>
> >> FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons
> >> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
> >> Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
> >>
> >>
> >> To save them permanently in a different folder and re-associate your
> >> favorites with the stored icons.
> >> It also verifies if Favorites links are still good.
> >>
> >> FavInocizer, here:
> >> http://www.codeproject.com/tools/fav...arget=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.
> >>
> >> To preserve the Favicons manually,
> >>
> >> Visit a site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
> >> Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
> >> Look at the line reading IconFile:
> >>
> >> Example:
> >> IconFile=http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
> >> Now, type http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and
> >> save
> >> the .ico file locally.
> >> Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.
> >>
> >> Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.
> >>
> >> Courtesy of Ramesh -
> >>
> >> Hope this helps
> >>
> >> Jan
> >> Smiles are meant to be shared,
> >> that's why they're so contagious.
> >>
> >> Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
> >> readers.
> >> How to make a good newsgroup post:
> >> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> >>
> >>
> >> >I am using IE6 sp1 on Windows ME, and was wondering why the favicons
> >> >aren't
> >> > showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web
> >> > addresses
> >> > the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the
> >> > favicons
> >> > never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar
> >> > like
> >> > it used to?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

Yes, you are missing something.

Favicons do not show in the address bar unless you have set the site
as a favorite.
If I go to any site that has a favicon (like www.google.com ), I do
not see the favicon until I set it as a favorite and access it by
using that favorite.
In time, that favicon will go from my TIF and I will not see it at
all, unless I save it permanently by one of the means already supplied
to you.


....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Faldo"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I must be missing something here.
>Isn't a favicon an icon some websites use as a logo to represent their site?
>Aren't favicons suppose to show up in the address bar when visiting websites
>that offer favicons? If so, do the favicons show up in the address bar even
>though the website is not in my favorites folder?
>Lets say I go to , should the "G" which is the google favicon
>show in the address bar even though google.com is not in my favorites folder.
>I remember a while back that when I used to visit various sites there used to
>be an icon in the address bar.
> Please correct me if I'm straying off the beaten path?
>"Jan Il" wrote:
>
>> Hi Faldo :-)
>>
>>
>> Are the Favorites there, but, not the icons for them? Or are the Favorites
>> also missing? That could be a different problem.
>>
>> According to the information I provided regarding favicons being kept in the
>> Temporary Internet Files folder. It is possible that your TIF's have been
>> flushed and therefore, you no longer have the favicons. You may have to
>> revisit the sites from the Address bar in order to reset them in your TIF
>> folder. Also, check your History to be sure it is properly recording your
>> Internet visits to set the favicons.
>>
>> Jan
>> Smiles are meant to be shared,
>> that's why they're so contagious.
>>
>> Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
>> How to make a good newsgroup post:
>> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> > Thanks for the info Jan, but I am really not interested in saving them
>> > onto
>> > my system. Just would like to know how do I have the websites favicons
>> > show
>> > up in the address bar when visiting various websites. It used to be that
>> > the
>> > favicons would show in the address bar along with the url of the website
>> > you
>> > are visiting. They used to show, but no more.
>> >
>> > "Jan Il" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Faldo :-)
>> >>
>> >> Take a look at the following information and see if it helps:
>> >>
>> >> Favicons not showing or lost
>> >>
>> >> Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out
>> >> if
>> >> it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs
>> >> and
>> >> webhosts now support favicons
>> >>
>> >> IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
>> >> clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.
>> >>
>> >> FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons
>> >> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
>> >> Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> To save them permanently in a different folder and re-associate your
>> >> favorites with the stored icons.
>> >> It also verifies if Favorites links are still good.
>> >>
>> >> FavInocizer, here:
>> >> http://www.codeproject.com/tools/fav...arget=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.
>> >>
>> >> To preserve the Favicons manually,
>> >>
>> >> Visit a site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
>> >> Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
>> >> Look at the line reading IconFile:
>> >>
>> >> Example:
>> >> IconFile=http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
>> >> Now, type http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and
>> >> save
>> >> the .ico file locally.
>> >> Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.
>> >>
>> >> Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.
>> >>
>> >> Courtesy of Ramesh -
>> >>
>> >> Hope this helps
>> >>
>> >> Jan
>> >> Smiles are meant to be shared,
>> >> that's why they're so contagious.
>> >>
>> >> Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
>> >> readers.
>> >> How to make a good newsgroup post:
>> >> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >I am using IE6 sp1 on Windows ME, and was wondering why the favicons
>> >> >aren't
>> >> > showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web
>> >> > addresses
>> >> > the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the
>> >> > favicons
>> >> > never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar
>> >> > like
>> >> > it used to?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

Bingo, Alan. Methinks you've supplied the missing nugget. <g>

--

Jon R. Kennedy
Charlotte, NC, USA
(E-Mail Removed)

"Alan Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Yes, you are missing something.
>
> Favicons do not show in the address bar unless you have set the site
> as a favorite.
> If I go to any site that has a favicon (like www.google.com ), I do
> not see the favicon until I set it as a favorite and access it by
> using that favorite.
> In time, that favicon will go from my TIF and I will not see it at
> all, unless I save it permanently by one of the means already supplied
> to you.
>
>
> ...Alan
>
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
> http://dts-l.org/index.html
>

"Alan Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Yes, you are missing something.
>
> Favicons do not show in the address bar unless you have set the site
> as a favorite.
> If I go to any site that has a favicon (like www.google.com ), I do
> not see the favicon until I set it as a favorite and access it by
> using that favorite.
> In time, that favicon will go from my TIF and I will not see it at
> all, unless I save it permanently by one of the means already supplied
> to you.

Thanks, Alan, guess I just wasn't explaining clearly enough. :-)

Jan

In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Jan Il"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"Alan Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Yes, you are missing something.
>>
>> Favicons do not show in the address bar unless you have set the site
>> as a favorite.
>> If I go to any site that has a favicon (like www.google.com ), I do
>> not see the favicon until I set it as a favorite and access it by
>> using that favorite.
>> In time, that favicon will go from my TIF and I will not see it at
>> all, unless I save it permanently by one of the means already supplied
>> to you.
>
>Thanks, Alan, guess I just wasn't explaining clearly enough. :-)
>
>Jan
>

Hi Jan,

You may have been clear enough but as I had hobnail boots on instead
of moccasins at the time, I though I would try a different approach.

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html