IE loses my favorites icons

[Happy Trails]

When I tell IE I want to list a page in my favorites, it will also
list its icon, but later when I start IE up again, it has replaced the
icon with its own IE blue thingee. What can I do to get IE to leave
the icons alone?




Happy Trails To You

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Happy Trails

Try the following and see if it helps:

Favicons not showing or lost

Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out if
it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs and
webhosts now support favicons

also..

Courtesy of Jim Byrd -

They sometimes won't show even if you have added them as Favorites. Try
this. Grab the default icon at the left end of the Address Bar and drag it
all the way to the right end of the Address Bar and then release.

and you can stry these:

FavInocizer, 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.

FavOrg 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

(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.)

Hope this helps

Jan
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[Alan Edwards]

Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
To make them permanent:
FavOrg-PCMag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp

or

The Code Project - FavIconizer:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp

.....Alan

 

[Happy Trails]

FavOrg 1.4 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip

Thanks for the effort, but now I've got another bit of software doing
the same thing as IE - getting the icon in the list, then losing it
the next time I start up the program. Did I miss the "save" button?

BTW this is with IE 6 (.NET) - is that my problem, do you think?

I didn't really want to make a new career out of playing with icons -
I think I'll just put it in the "too hard" file.

It's funny how more and more of the MS software features can be
classified as "What the system does to you", instead of "What the
system does for you" !


Happy Trails To You

 

[Chad Harris]

Some nice links and I was glad to get the ones from Jan and Alan I haven't
seen. But there's a basic principle here:

To save a favicon or to exchange an icon for the 2000 plus native to Win XP,
included in downloaded programs, and zip files for programs, you need to do
two things if you do this manually. If you don't the favicon or the icon
you subbed for the boring explorer "e" is going to go away after you reboot
or clear Temp Int Files.

With favicons, go to the url the favicon came from and add /favicon.ico to
the url.
You should be able to drag this favicon but if you can't then pull the small
"e" from the upper left corner name bar several times like a suspender strap
and then drag it to the desktop.

1) Change the name of the favicon.
2) Put it in a folder you can call anything including "Happy Trail Icons."
3) If you want to exchange any shortcut icon for a favicon, then rt. click
desktop>porperties>change icons and browse any folders to change to that
particular icon. This includes System 32, Program Files, Download Files and
Zip files. You can also exchange the shortcut icon with the icons you
accumulate in the save icons folder referenced above as the "Happy Trail
Icon" folder.

Best,

Chad Harris

 

[Happy Trails]

Thanks Chad, but a little slanted thinking got me a much easier
solution.

If I changed the "advanced" option to use personalized menus, IE6 will
then use the target web sites icons. Cute.

If I then change back to the long list which I am used to (even though
I might go with the shorter one later), the colorful icons are
retained and not lost as before when I restart IE6.

This seems a lot smarter than screwing around with downloading
licensed utilities and changing folders all over the place.

Now, if they are only there when I reboot . . . . hahaha.

- Tom
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Some nice links and I was glad to get the ones from Jan and Alan I haven't
seen. But there's a basic principle here:

To save a favicon or to exchange an icon for the 2000 plus native to Win XP,
included in downloaded programs, and zip files for programs, you need to do
two things if you do this manually. If you don't the favicon or the icon
you subbed for the boring explorer "e" is going to go away after you reboot
or clear Temp Int Files.

With favicons, go to the url the favicon came from and add /favicon.ico to
the url.
You should be able to drag this favicon but if you can't then pull the small
"e" from the upper left corner name bar several times like a suspender strap
and then drag it to the desktop.

1) Change the name of the favicon.
2) Put it in a folder you can call anything including "Happy Trail Icons."
3) If you want to exchange any shortcut icon for a favicon, then rt. click
desktop>porperties>change icons and browse any folders to change to that
particular icon. This includes System 32, Program Files, Download Files and
Zip files. You can also exchange the shortcut icon with the icons you
accumulate in the save icons folder referenced above as the "Happy Trail
Icon" folder.

Best,

Chad Harris

Happy Trails To You