Internet explorer bookmark icons in links--help?

[JimRaynor]

I was just curious. Everytime I put a new bookmark in my links bar in internet explorer it initially has its own custom icon. Like for example I put newegg in there and it has a newegg "egg" icon. After awhile, next reboot or whatever, it loses that icon and reverts to the generic IE icon. Is there any way to keep the custom icons? Thanks in advance.

 

[JZilla]

It's freaking annoying. It happens when the temp files are deleted.

One thing you can do is move the icons from the folder to another folder, but then you have to edit each and every bookmark in order to tell the bookmark where it can find the icon. Really boring to do.

I read about this some time ago. I would be very interested in finding a prog that could do this, or an easier way.

 

[xSauronx]

its neat to have, and aggravated me at first that it did this...but in the end i could care less, just eye candy

 

[RVN]

There's a program called Favorg that will allow you to permanently save them. I've been using it for years with all versions of Windows. I make my own icons for sites that don't employ favicons with their own graphics and logos; and I substitute other favicons with cleaner looking better ones for sites that do (that use sh*tty looking ones). These favicons can be used to customize your folders as well. Using favicons makes it very easy to navigate your favorites visually and find the bookmark you're looking for immediately, which is especially useful, if you have thousands of bookmarks to look through. It's not just "eye candy" as it serves this very useful purpose.

When websites started using favicons, it allowed them to know that you've bookmarked them. This was a big privacy issue with some people. There is no harm that can be inflicted from this knowledge, especially with today's firewall protection and security measures. After the initial bookmarking, I backup my favicon data and reuse it upon reinstalling the OS.

You can manually rename and apply the favicons yourself without any program; however favorg is very handy and simple to use. I recommend highly. I have a sweet tooth for eye candy!

 

[JimRaynor]

cool thanks i will try it out

 

[bradolson]

I second the recommendation of Favorg. Great program.

Brad

 

[JZilla]

FavOrg looks like just the thing we needed. Great. Thank you. The Extremetech article seems very good.