Ooops. I'm sorry, I guess I was lost as to what group I was in. I was
reading some of the headers for the group and assumed, wrongly, that it was
a Vista group, without thinking to re-check where I was (no more posting
late at night...).
But now I'm wondering, in principle, whether the OP may have changed his
desktop icon size from the default XP size to a bigger one, causing the
favicons not to show.
"Wesley Vogel" wrote in message
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Are you using Vista or XP?
I do not have a View Classic Icons choice with XP.
You're using Vista.
XP does not even have a View choice on the Desktop only in folders and
View does not have Classic Icons as a choice.
Vista: Return Icons to the Smaller Classic XP Size
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1399/...lassic_xp_size
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In ,
dean-dean hunted and pecked:
It may have to do with the size you've set for your desktop icons. If an
icon doesn't contain support for bigger dimensions (and most favicons
don't), your desktop will show the generic "e" icon, which does. If you
right -click your desktop and choose View Classic Icons, you will
probably see most of your "e"s revert to the favicon, if the shortcut has
one.
"Youka" wrote in message
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Thanks for your suggestions, but nothing worked.
I'm reasonably certain that the problem had nothing to do with emptying
my Temporary Internet Files folder, since I didn't.
I simply created a shortcut on my desktop for a newly visited web site
and IMMEDIATELY dragged it into one of my desktop folders. That's when
the distinctive favicon for the web site shortcut changed into the "Big
Blue E"
IE icon. When I dragged the shortcut out of the desktop folder and
back
onto the desktop, the distinctive favicon was restored.
I did download FavOrg, and ran it as suggested, but it didn't help --
which
didn't really surprise me since I've never had a problem with the icons
appearing in my Address Bar or Favorites List, even after cleaning out
my
Temporary Internet Files folder.
It's when I try to drag them off the Desktop that the problem arises.
Does anyone else experience this problem ???