Custom Icon for web page

[Guest]

I lost the custom Icons in my favorites file. I tried the fix on the
Microsoft site, but it did not work. The original icon is not listed in the
change Icon choices. This happened once before and was corrected when I
blanked my system and reloaded all software and added the favorites. The
icons were there for about 6 weeks and just vanished and are changed the the
"e" icon.

thanks for any help you may have for me.

 

[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