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Old June 24th 11, 05:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Default Keep favicon when creating shortcuts and saving them in folders

five256 wrote:

I keep my Internet shortcuts in folders and would like to be able to
maintain the original favicon (that would otherwise be in Favorites).
Please tell me how to do this. All I usually get is the IE or Firefox
favicon.


Go into your unnamed web browser's TIF (temporary internet files) cache
folder and copy out the .ico files while visiting the site whose icon
you want to keep. In the shortcut's properties, change the icon to use
the .ico file that you saved. The TIF probably gets cleaned out
periodically which means the .ico files won't be there for use in
shortcuts and why you have to copy them elsewhere to they stay around.