Hi Tony
Courtesy of Ramesh -
Favorite icons are like Favorites, only temporary, and they will eventually
flush out of the History.
IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.
If you want to perserve them manually try the following:
Visit that site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
Look at the line reading IconFile:
Example:
IconFile=
http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
Now, type
http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and save
the .ico file locally.
Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.
Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.
or...
You can use this small utility to organize and save them:
FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons (subscription required)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
You can get free downloads at the links below free:
Version 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
This allows you to save them permanently in a different folder and
re-associate your favorites with the stored icons. It also verifies 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
Hope this helps
Jan
MS MVP - IE/OE
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