Help - IE Favorites Icons keep changing back to default icon

[Malthor]

Hi,

For some reason, the custom icons that various websites
use when you add them to your favorites list keep
defaulting back to the default IE/Windows one with the
white page and the blue 'e' on it.

I use the custom icons to quickly find pages in my list.

Not quite sure when they are reverting (probably
sometimes on a reboot).

Any ideas if there is a setting somewhere I can change?

I am using XP Pro.

Thanks in advance for anyhelp you can give.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Malthor - 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://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.



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[Guest]

Thanks Jim.

Have downloaded your recommended application and am
running it.

Looks good.

 

[Jim Byrd]

YW - Glad you found it useful.

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