For some reason my favorites list has lost all the small icons that were at the side of the site addresses and are now all are replaced by the explorer icons .Anyone advise on what has happened and how to restore them ? Thank you .
In Opera they come back when i click them…
[b]Preserve the favicons using AM-Deadlink [/b]http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/favicon.htmFavicons
A favicon (favorite icon) is a customized image that Microsoft Internet Explorer uses, if it is available, as an icon to go with a user-specified bookmarked site on the Links bar at the top of a Web browser window. When you visit a link, Internet Explorer downloads the corresponding Favicon of that page and saves the file in the Cache. Usually the Favicon.ico file which contains the actual image, gets deleted once you clear the Temporary Internet Files cache. When the special icon file is lost, the URL is displayed with a standard IE icon.
You may try updating to IE9 as well.
Still trying to solve this problem . The only thing I can think of that changed was updating and running the latest version of Superantispyware . Would that have removed or blocked anything ? Possibly settings for scanning and programme options ? Prefer IE 7 .
Just tried Google chrome and installed Firefox , icons work o.k on both .
You just need to know what to search for, http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=restore+favorites+icons.
This is the first hit http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/06/12/how-to-restore-all-your-ie-bookmark-favicons-at-once/.
In all this took me less than 1 minute, hopefully it will work.
DavidR, thank you so much for the link . It worked perfectly and so simple !!!I have spent hours today trying to find a solution and trying umpteen different things to resolve this . I dont know how many sites I visited on Google with different permutations of the problem but could not find an answer . I really appreciate your help once more , thank you .
You’re welcome.
Google is great, but you really have to formulate your question to get the correct answers ;D
Thanks for help and link . Got it sorted out last night with help/link from DavidR .I think I may have spent more time trying to figure out why they had disappeared rather than just asking how to restore them . And also as suggested Googling the wrong info doesn’t help matters .Appreciate your assistance .