Links Toolbar Icons

[Guest]

When I add a webpage link to the Links toolbar, there will sometimes be a
custom Icon to the left of its name on the button (e.g., Netflix = orange
background with 1/4 silver disc). But upon the next startup, any custom icon
is always replaced by the standard blue IE icon. What do I have to do to
retain a website's original Icon?

 

[Jon Kennedy]

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