"Custom" icon in Quick Launch bar?

Vista Ultimate, SP1

Silly little issue: On my XP machine, if I add a website to my Quick Launch
bar by dragging the draggin the web page's icon from the IE Address Bar down
to my Quick Launch bar, the resulting icon on my QL bar is an image of the
website's icon. (For example, Amazon's is their ubiquitous A with the smile
underneath it.)

On my Vista machine, the resulting QL icon is the generic Internet
Explorer's "E".

It's not a big deal...well actually it is, because the unique icon's make
visual ID easier.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Ken Isaacson
SILENT COUNSEL, a legal thriller
www.KenIsaacson.com

"Ken Isaacson" <KJIsaacson[nospam]@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Vista Ultimate, SP1
>
> Silly little issue: On my XP machine, if I add a website to my Quick Launch
> bar by dragging the draggin the web page's icon from the IE Address Bar down
> to my Quick Launch bar, the resulting icon on my QL bar is an image of the
> website's icon. (For example, Amazon's is their ubiquitous A with the smile underneath it.)
>
> On my Vista machine, the resulting QL icon is the generic Internet Explorer's "E".
>
> It's not a big deal...well actually it is, because the unique icon's make visual ID easier.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken Isaacson
> SILENT COUNSEL, a legal thriller
> www.KenIsaacson.com
>



Right click on the QL Button > Click "Shortcut" tab > Change Icon...

--
Colton
OS: Microsoft Vista Home Premium x86 SP1

Uh, I see how to rightclick on the QL icon (button?), click properties,
click on "Change Icon," but that just gives me choices of icons that reside
on my machine.

What I'm talking about is automatic on my XP machine: Drag the webpage's
icon directly from the IE Address window while viewing the web page to the
QL bar. This drops the shortcut there on the QL bar, and the icon is a
replica of that appears in the IE Address window....

"Colton" <educability@**gmail.com**> wrote in message
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> "Ken Isaacson" <KJIsaacson[nospam]@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:6779639B-E141-49C1-B7D7-...
>> Vista Ultimate, SP1
>>
>> Silly little issue: On my XP machine, if I add a website to my Quick
>> Launch
>> bar by dragging the draggin the web page's icon from the IE Address Bar
>> down
>> to my Quick Launch bar, the resulting icon on my QL bar is an image of
>> the
>> website's icon. (For example, Amazon's is their ubiquitous A with the
>> smile underneath it.)
>>
>> On my Vista machine, the resulting QL icon is the generic Internet
>> Explorer's "E".
>>
>> It's not a big deal...well actually it is, because the unique icon's make
>> visual ID easier.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Ken Isaacson
>> SILENT COUNSEL, a legal thriller
>> www.KenIsaacson.com
>>
>
>
>
> Right click on the QL Button > Click "Shortcut" tab > Change Icon...
>
> --
> Colton
> OS: Microsoft Vista Home Premium x86 SP1
>

I kind knew it had something to do with a favicon...but any idea why on my
old machine they made their way to my QL bar without all the folderol? Just
by simply dragging?


"S. Farragut" <> wrote in message
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> you want the favicon.ico of that site...
>
> in order to find that icon you will add a /favicon.ico to the address you
> want.. the main domain.. for example for cnn.com is
>
> http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico
>
> the best way to download the actual ico is to use a download manager
>
> like freedownloadmanager.org or www.flashget.com
>
> and add the address with the favicon to download in my example this:\
>
> http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico
>
>
> by the way.. there is an idiot that’s original name-handle is spanky...
> but it loves to take the identity of others because itself doesn’t have a
> real identity and it has a total lack of self worth..
>
> its suffering from many physiological problems.. in other words it’s a
> nutcase! So if you see an idiot posting under my name... its not me.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> "Ken Isaacson" <KJIsaacson[nospam]@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news3990B4E-E634-47C1-9C28-...
>> Uh, I see how to rightclick on the QL icon (button?), click properties,
>> click on "Change Icon," but that just gives me choices of icons that
>> reside on my machine.
>>
>> What I'm talking about is automatic on my XP machine: Drag the webpage's
>> icon directly from the IE Address window while viewing the web page to
>> the QL bar. This drops the shortcut there on the QL bar, and the icon is
>> a replica of that appears in the IE Address window....
>>
>> "Colton" <educability@**gmail.com**> wrote in message
>> news:CB88F3AE-DD04-4703-969B-...
>>> "Ken Isaacson" <KJIsaacson[nospam]@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:6779639B-E141-49C1-B7D7-...
>>>> Vista Ultimate, SP1
>>>>
>>>> Silly little issue: On my XP machine, if I add a website to my Quick
>>>> Launch
>>>> bar by dragging the draggin the web page's icon from the IE Address Bar
>>>> down
>>>> to my Quick Launch bar, the resulting icon on my QL bar is an image of
>>>> the
>>>> website's icon. (For example, Amazon's is their ubiquitous A with the
>>>> smile underneath it.)
>>>>
>>>> On my Vista machine, the resulting QL icon is the generic Internet
>>>> Explorer's "E".
>>>>
>>>> It's not a big deal...well actually it is, because the unique icon's
>>>> make visual ID easier.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Ken Isaacson
>>>> SILENT COUNSEL, a legal thriller
>>>> www.KenIsaacson.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Right click on the QL Button > Click "Shortcut" tab > Change Icon...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Colton
>>> OS: Microsoft Vista Home Premium x86 SP1
>>>
>>

user on ubuntu <> wrote:

[snip]

Yet another nick, huh? No problem: another entry in my killfile.