Fav Icons

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I saw somewhere that you could save the "fav icons" to a folder, then set
them to work with the certain sites, so that they "stay" next to the address,
rather than go away after a certain ammount of time. How can this be done?
 
Tony Norman said:
I saw somewhere that you could save the "fav icons" to a folder, then set
them to work with the certain sites, so that they "stay" next to the
address,
rather than go away after a certain ammount of time. How can this be done?
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Do you want to do this yourself, by saving those icons when you visit the
site?

Or, would you like to have a program that downloads them from your
favorites, then creates the icons for you, to use as lng as you wish.

If the latter, go here http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and
download FavOrg, line item #108, right section, install, and then run it.
 
You might want to get a copy of the freeware AM-Deadlink
(http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm) and have your favorites 'checked' by
it.
It will download the favicons to your system and have them available.
Favicons are offered by the site you're visiting and handled from there.

hth

george
 
Hi Tony - 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 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/favorg.zip
http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

http://members.madasafish.com/~merc/favorg.zip
http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/vault/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 FavIconizer, 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. (Warning, however - it's verrry
slow compared with the others.)

A third alternative is AM-Deadlink, free, here:
http://www.aignes.com/products.htm "AM-DeadLink detects dead links and
duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable
you can delete it from your Browser. AM-Deadlink checks Bookmarks from
Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape. Additionally you can
download FavIcons for Internet Explorer and Opera." Recommended


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Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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