Question About Icons

[Brooklyn NYC]

Hello All:

Have a question regarding icons:
Whenever I save a Web site as a favorite -- I'm using IE6 -- and that Web
site saves in my favorites folder with it's own icon -- like the "Y" for
Yahoo for example -- Internet Explorer always changes that icon to the "E."

Is there a way to save the icon for a particular Web site so that IE won't
change it?

Thanks.

Brooklyn NYC

 

[Jeffrey Struyk [MVP]]

Hello All:

Have a question regarding icons:
Whenever I save a Web site as a favorite -- I'm using IE6 -- and that Web
site saves in my favorites folder with it's own icon -- like the "Y" for
Yahoo for example -- Internet Explorer always changes that icon to the "E."

Is there a way to save the icon for a particular Web site so that IE won't
change it?

I found a freeware utility called FavOrg. It will scan all your
favorites and check to see if the link is still valid. It will
summarize at the end and let you delete invalid favorites.

In the process, it will also restore any custom icons like the Yahoo
"Y" you mentioned.

 

[john]

The problem is that the icon is in the "Documents and Settings/<your user
name>/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files folder, but gets deleted when
you do disk cleanup.
There's software available to do it, but I find the simplest way is -

Create a folder called Icons
When you first copy the link to Favorites, the icon (usually called
'favicon') will still be in that Temporary Internet Files folder.
Copy it straight away into the Icons folder, rename it Yahoo or whatever, go
to that particular Favorite, Rt-clk/Properties/change icon, and point it to
the one in the Icons folder.

 

[Brooklyn NYC]

Hello All:

Have a question regarding icons:
Whenever I save a Web site as a favorite -- I'm using IE6 -- and that Web
site saves in my favorites folder with it's own icon -- like the "Y" for
Yahoo for example -- Internet Explorer always changes that icon to the "E."

Is there a way to save the icon for a particular Web site so that IE won't
change it?

Thanks.

Brooklyn NYC

Thanks John -- I will give it a try!

 

[john]

No probs. At least it saves loading more 3rd. party junk on your PC.