Missing Icons-help please

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When I click my Favorites icon in my IE toolbar a list of my favorites appears on the left side of my screen. The problem is there are no folder icons or ie icons beside them. Any clue how this happened and how to fix it

I see the icons when I go to the folder manually using explorer

I have tried to change the icons under properties but they dont take
my guess is there is something wrong with my dll's
 
J.Angell said:
When I click my Favorites icon in my IE toolbar a list of my favorites
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appears on the left side of my screen. The problem is there are no folder
icons or ie icons beside them. Any clue how this happened and how to fix it?
I see the icons when I go to the folder manually using explorer.

I have tried to change the icons under properties but they dont take.
my guess is there is something wrong with my dll's.
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You could try FavOrg?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,13999,00.asp

the article will tell you why.
 
Thanks, but that is not the problem I am having. Even if that will fix my problem. I refuse to pay for something that should be a free fix. Unfortunatly I can not find any info on how to fix this problem with IE6. Icons should not just disappear the way they did.
 
J.Angell said:
Thanks, but that is not the problem I am having. Even if that will fix my
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problem. I refuse to pay for something that should be a free fix.
Unfortunatly I can not find any info on how to fix this problem with IE6.
Icons should not just disappear the way they did.

Yeah, sorry about that I forgot that PC mag was charging :-((

(still free at these links)

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
 
J.Angell said:
Thanks for the links. I installed FavOrg but it did not fix my particular problem. My problem lies strictly within the Favorites
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list using my toolbar. There is no problem with the Favorites folder. Also when I click Organize Favorites there are no icons.
Thanks for the help.
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I suspect that your User Shell Folders Favorites value (in the registry)
is not pointing at the directory that you have found with Explorer.
This could have happened if you accidentally dragged the folder
somewhere else using an Explorer tree and then later corrected
the error using a different mechanism. The dragging dynamically
updates any registry dependencies which the other mechanism
would be oblivious of.

Using the Favorites menu is there at least a Links subfolder present?
If so, use it (or its Properties) to find the directory which the registry
will be pointing at. Example:

< excerpt from previous post >
First I would use the IE Favorites menu to find the path
that is being used there. E.g. here are some keystrokes
to do that: Alt-a,L,CursorLeft,Shift-F10,O,Alt-V,o,U
That assumes: that you have a Links folder; that L finds the
Links folder; that the Links folder has items which display
when that is done; therefore the CursorLeft is needed to
select the Links folder item itself. The rest of the sequence
is just a way to put the location of the Favorites folder in
an Explorer Address bar.
</ excerpt from previous post >

Then you should have enough information to find the incorrect
entry in the registry and change it appropriately.

There was an old MSKB article originally written for Windows 95
which you can use as a reference:

<title>KB167124 - Favorites Entries Lost During Internet Explorer Installation</title>


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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