Eddepet Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Hi all, first post to the forum and allready asking for help :D It concerns the Links bar in Internet Explorer. I`m using XP Pro btw. Some sites display their own icon, f.i. Deskmod, Deviantart, Google. I had those icons nicely displayed in the Links bar for a while but now they start dissapearing, not all at once though. The one from Neowin is still there :) Any idea why this is happening ? Maybe something to do with cache...but arent the icons themselves on the respective servers of the websites ? Eddepet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 i just noticed the same thing.. although I did reinstall XP a few weeks ago and the ones that arnt working are the links I havnt used since then (as I copied my favourates folder before the format). Although I use neowin every day and that icon isnt there... strange. Damn this is going to annoy me now - someone find a fix please! Kieran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linglok Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 hi all, i think i know wot u guys are talking about. here is my observation. if the website had not been added in your bookmark before, then no matter how many time you revisit the site, the link icon will not show up. It doesn't matter if the website sill in your bookmark or not, as long as that website had added in the bookmark once, the link icon will showup. hope this helps:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedogg Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 There are a couple free apps out there which go through all ur links and looks up their associated icons and retains them for u...lost it when i went from 98 to xp tho and forgot the name. Look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happymonkey Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 The problem is that IE/Windows only downloads the icon once and soon looses it. I think this is so not to slow your computer down, because it would have to pull it live off the internet. You must tell windows to download this information. To do this select 'Make available offline' on each shortcut so it can synchronize icons and stuff. or you could save all the icons manually and locally (to get the orginial icon see below), then edit the shortcut to point locally. To edit the shortcut click Start, then Run, type notepad, then drag and drop the link to where you just typed (the run dialog). Click OK and the bones of the shortcut appear. First copy the path on IconFile line and put it in IE's address bar. Add 'about:Link' after. Right-Click on 'Link' and select 'Save Target As' and then save the icon in your chosen folder. (Back in Notepad) Change IconFile to your saved icon path. Also change IconIndex to 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravi Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Do a search on Google for FavOrg....it is a nice little program theat works under XP with IE6. It finds dead URLs and updates all the icons in your Favorites. It also stores them locally on your HD so aren't lost in future. Hope this help....;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddepet Posted February 15, 2002 Author Share Posted February 15, 2002 Ravi, Well I found FavOrg, and ran it, but it recovered just 4 icons, out of the 15 or so that are missing. I tried every setting possible to no avail. I guess I`ll just have to make new links, and delete the old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumkinut Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 Okay, this is a bit of a pain in the posterior, but there's a manual way of fixing this problem. You have to navigate to your 'Temporary Internet Files' folder either through explorer or by choosing in IE the following: <pre> 'Tools' -> Internet Options | |-> Temporary Internet Files Section of General Tab | |-> Settings | |-> View Files button </pre> In the Temporary Internet Files folder will be all the icons associated with the 'Links' bar (usually named favicon(number).ico) What I did was move all these icons to a folder of their own and then associate all the sites in the Links bar with their respective icons, by right clicking on the link and choosing properties and then clicking on the 'Change Icon' button. You can then point the shortcut to any icon you please. As I said, it's a bit of a pain, but it works.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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