IE shortcut icons

metomeyametomeya New
edited May 2004 in Science & Tech
At work almost all the site i bookmark have their own icons from their webpage. (you know icon you see at the address bar, they use a special one instead of the standard IE one) I imported all my icons from work to my new computer, but all chnaged it icon to the standard one.

And when i even goto the website the icon won't come up.

This is really annoying since those icons make selecting my favoirtes really really easier and now its gone. Anyway i can restore those icons (i know i can change the icon, but i don't have the icon from the website)

thanks
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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2004
    That is one of my pet peeves, too. A GUI is not worth that much when all of the graphics look the same. (A blue "e".)

    The problem is that Windows puts the icons in the Temporary Internet Files folder. When you clean the folder it tosses out the icons along with everything else. I create a folder named "Extra Icons" and keep them there. Then I manually link the shortcut to the icon I've saved. It's a pain to set up the first time around but once it's done you don't have to worry about it again. When I redo my computer I Export/Import my Favorites and then copy my Extra Icons folder to the same place on the new setup. All done.

    If anyone knows I better way to to this I would love to hear it.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    PC Magazine used to offer a program called FavOrg that did what you did, prof. Now you have to pay for it. I'm sure if you searched hard enough you could find it :nudge:

    The other solution is to use a shell enhancement like Avantbrowser or MyIE2, or use Mozilla Firefox.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    profdlp wrote:
    That is one of my pet peeves, too. A GUI is not worth that much when all of the graphics look the same. (A blue "e".)

    The problem is that Windows puts the icons in the Temporary Internet Files folder. When you clean the folder it tosses out the icons along with everything else. I create a folder named "Extra Icons" and keep them there. Then I manually link the shortcut to the icon I've saved. It's a pain to set up the first time around but once it's done you don't have to worry about it again. When I redo my computer I Export/Import my Favorites and then copy my Extra Icons folder to the same place on the new setup. All done.

    If anyone knows I better way to to this I would love to hear it.

    Windows does associations by file type. The association for .html and .htm is an Internent Explorer icon, standing for the program used by default to open .htm and .html files. The .ico file used for a file is and iconic type or kind indicator.

    So, to get unique icons on desktop for groups of files, like site files, you change the FOLDER icon and do NOT tell windows to make all folders the same or you get the change for type folder.

    The only other builtin way is to use a third party program that tracks icons by file instead of by type or kind or program used to work with file-- these programs use thier own databases to track these associations, and use computer time to make them work. Essentially these programs add functions. You can look at programs called desktop managers, see if you can find something that supports file-unique icons, but such things need the program that made them present to maintain them.

    Essentially, a logic idea called MIME is used to help make this type association work. IF you make files have unique extensions, they can have unique icons, but then you still need to tell Windows what to use to work with them. Most common file types have type icons registered, and reserved for them in the Microsoft world.

    Try organizing things you want to save into folders, give them unique .ico files for icons, and as for websites, Mozilla lets sites have unique icons in browser bar but like most browsers will not stick all things from one site in one folder unless you tell the browser you want the site saved for offline browsing. THEN, you will get a folder per offline site, though the name will be strange. With XP this can work, this is how the thumbnails for graphics files can be unique in the graphics browser in XP-- the thumbnail (plus a background folder icon to frame it, for a graphics folder) is the iconic association for the graphics file.

    I use Linux, KDE for desktop, and Konqueror for file browsing. It uses a combo of type and thumbnailing for files, program files are by what runs th eprogram, data files are thumbnail iconed, or converted into small pictures that show the basic idea of what is in the beginning of the file. Thus I get some of the functions you want, in a file browser that can also web browse pretty well if wanted.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2004
    Mr. Kwitko wrote:
    PC Magazine used to offer a program called FavOrg...
    Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look around.
  • metomeyametomeya New
    edited May 2004
    Use FavOrg,


    fixed my problem
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2004
    metomeya wrote:
    Use FavOrg,


    fixed my problem
    Found it! Very nice program. Thanks for asking this question, metomeya, and thanks for the great tip, Mr. Kwitko.

    :respect:
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