Custom Web Icons

  • Thread starter Thread starter Fred
  • Start date Start date
F

Fred

I have two computers running windos xp. both have up to
date internet explorer 6.0 When I add a web page to one
of my computers, a custom icon is sometimes saved to the
favorite menu and available to be sent to desktop. On the
second computer, I sometime have seen a custom icon but
the disapear at some point in time and are replaced by
the generic explorer icon. Any ideas on how to correct
this situation?
 
The custom icons are stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder. If the
content of this folder is deleted, then the custom icon is gone also.

Do a search for the custom icon. It is usually save as favorite.ico. Save
the custom icon to another folder, like C:\Windows\Web. Then on the
Properties menu of shortcut in Favorites, point the icon to that location.
 
Hi Sharon - These are known as favicons.ico (Favorite Icons) and they
normally will only last until your Internet Explorer Temp files are cleared.

You need to get a program called FavOrg 1.4 (Recommended) here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/files/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

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

(still free at these links) which will allow you to save them permanently
in a different folder and re-associate your favorites with the stored icons.
(It will also verify whether your links in Favorites are stll good, BTW.)

If you want to read more about it first, go here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9883,00.asp

You can also try FavIoncizer, here:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp?target=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.



--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



In
 
Back
Top