Hi Irv--
The way I get icons from web pages is to add /favicon.ico to the webpage url
and if one shows up I drag it into a folder I call Favicons. Sometimes if a
favicon doesn't show up inside the window, you can harvest one by holding
down the left mouse and pulling it from the IE name bar on the left of the
url. You do this "suspender snap" like action, letting it snap back about 3
times and then drag it to the desktop or a folder.
The main things to do to keep this from happening (no diff in Vista than
other previous Windows OS's) are to:
1) House the icon you want to save in a folder like you're doing.
2) You must change the name of the icon if you're harvesting it from a url
by adding favicon.ico onto it. For example, the ET from Extreme Tech is
dragged to the desktop after typing
www.extremetech.com/favicon.ico
you need to change it's name with a right click and then drag it into a
folder of your choice to protect it.
There are about 2000 icons native to XP or Vista. You have to check out the
%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll .dll files and click them open to see
which ones have icons. They (the .dll files) are not all the same as in XP,
but many are and the icons themsevles have changed.
2) As always downloaded program folders are sources of icons, zip files,
programs like Office.
3) Adding favicon.ico after a forward slash onto many website urls will
yield a favicon.
CH
