Webpage icons under IE 5.5

[grit621]

Some webpages have their own icons to replace the default icon that shows up to the left of the link in the address bar OR in the "Favorites" list. AnandTech seems to be one of those sites.

However, I do not always see the icon. In fact, when I originally created a link to AnandTech (very recently; I had to re-install Win2k), I saw the icon on both the address bar and in the "Favorites" link.

Today, it's gone. I'm constantly connected to the internet via DSL, but I do shut my computer down when it is not in use. However, other sites I added today DO have their personalized icons (such as Storage Review).

I enjoy the icons and would like them to stay there all the time. Is there any way I can prevent them from disappearing?

 

[Jittles]

Good question.

I want to know too...

 

[SocrPlyr]

when the icon gets cleared out of your cache it goes away... it takes time for this to happen what you could do though is to create a folder on your hd... find the icon in your cache then copy it to the folder then go the the favorite (it works just like a regular shortcut) and change the icon to the one you copied into the new folder...

Josh

 

[grit621]

Why doesn't the icon re-load into cache each time I click on the webpage?

 

[SocrPlyr]

it only loads into the cache when you add it as a favorite...
don't ask me i don't work for MS
thank goodness

Josh

 

[grit621]

<< it only loads into the cache when you add it as a favorite...don't ask me i don't work for MS thank goodness >>



Hehehe.

Does anyone else know?

I checked the cache, and in a few cases, I found a favicon.ico file for some pages, but not for all. I manually checked all the files related to one website, and can not find any that are icons, yet the icon for that site still shows up.

 

[jpsj82]

how would one add this feature to a webpage?

 

[grit621]

Well, thanks to some help from SocrPlyr, I think I got it figured out, mostly.

Each page will create a file for the icon (if it has one) when you add it to your favorites.
The icon will not disappear unless you delete your OFFLINE internet cache files (beware, Norton Safe Sweep will delete these files as part of what it considers to be your internet temp files).

I've done just what SocrPlyr suggested; find those files (in Sharky Extreme's case, it was an HTML doc, but it still worked) and save them to another directory, and just use the &quot;change icon&quot; feature.

Too much work to warrant doing it for all of them, but not too bad just to get the ones in my Links bar.

 

[joohang]

Click here

 

[boomerang]

This program will do this for you. You will have to rerun it from time to time.

 

[jpsj82]

thank you all

 

[SUOrangeman]

Favicon.com

-SUO