Icon with a URL in Shortcut

When I set up an Internet shortcut, I would like the Icon to be the one
that shows at the left of the address box (where I type the URL). What I
do is copy the URL and create the shortcut with the copy. Sometimes I
get the Icon I'm looking for - but often, the Icon is the satandard Icon
that represents Internet Explorer. How do I get the URL's Icon every
time? Thanks.

wrote:

> When I set up an Internet shortcut, I would like the Icon to be the one
> that shows at the left of the address box (where I type the URL). What I
> do is copy the URL and create the shortcut with the copy. Sometimes I
> get the Icon I'm looking for - but often, the Icon is the satandard Icon
> that represents Internet Explorer. How do I get the URL's Icon every
> time? Thanks.

Visit the web site. Copy their favicon.ico file to somewhere other than
your web browser's TIF cache folder. Then modify the shortcut's icon
to use that saved .ico file.

On 4/04/11, posted:
> When I set up an Internet shortcut, I would like the Icon to be the one
> that shows at the left of the address box (where I type the URL). What I
> do is copy the URL and create the shortcut with the copy. Sometimes I
> get the Icon I'm looking for - but often, the Icon is the satandard Icon
> that represents Internet Explorer. How do I get the URL's Icon every
> time? Thanks.

Try creating the shortcut by dragging the address from the address box
(bar) to the favorites panel. Grab it by the icon and drag it where you
want it.

Works for me in IE 8 (I just got updated to IE 9 today and haven't run
it yet).

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:48:16 -0500, VanguardLH <> wrote:

> wrote:
>
>> When I set up an Internet shortcut, I would like the Icon to be the one
>> that shows at the left of the address box (where I type the URL). What I
>> do is copy the URL and create the shortcut with the copy. Sometimes I
>> get the Icon I'm looking for - but often, the Icon is the satandard Icon
>> that represents Internet Explorer. How do I get the URL's Icon every
>> time? Thanks.
>
>Visit the web site. Copy their favicon.ico file to somewhere other than
>your web browser's TIF cache folder.

How do I copy the favicon.ico - never did this before?

Then modify the shortcut's icon
>to use that saved .ico file.

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:58:35 -0700, Gene E. Bloch
<> wrote:

>On 4/04/11, posted:
>> When I set up an Internet shortcut, I would like the Icon to be the one
>> that shows at the left of the address box (where I type the URL). What I
>> do is copy the URL and create the shortcut with the copy. Sometimes I
>> get the Icon I'm looking for - but often, the Icon is the satandard Icon
>> that represents Internet Explorer. How do I get the URL's Icon every
>> time? Thanks.
>
>Try creating the shortcut by dragging the address from the address box
>(bar) to the favorites panel. Grab it by the icon and drag it where you
>want it.
>
>Works for me in IE 8 (I just got updated to IE 9 today and haven't run
>it yet).

Working with tyour suggestion - it might work. I'm using Firefox.

BTW, IE is my default browser - but I'd like the shortcuts I create to
open with Firefox. Can you tell me how to do this?

five256 wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>
>>Visit the web site. Copy their favicon.ico file to somewhere other than
>>your web browser's TIF cache folder.
>
> How do I copy the favicon.ico - never did this before?

You are claiming you don't know how to copy files in Windows? Or how to
search for files?

When I said to visit a web site, that means to visit there and stay
there. Do not visit and leave by exiting the web browser as it may be
configured to clear its TIF folder on exit.

As to where is your web browser's TIF folder, that depends on what web
browser you are using but didn't mention.

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:33:47 -0500, VanguardLH <> wrote:

>five256 wrote:
>
>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>
>>>Visit the web site. Copy their favicon.ico file to somewhere other than
>>>your web browser's TIF cache folder.
>>
>> How do I copy the favicon.ico - never did this before?
>
>You are claiming you don't know how to copy files in Windows? Or how to
>search for files?

No, I don't know what a Favicon file is or where to find it.
>
>When I said to visit a web site, that means to visit there and stay
>there. Do not visit and leave by exiting the web browser as it may be
>configured to clear its TIF folder on exit.

I also don't know what a TIF folder is.
>
>As to where is your web browser's TIF folder, that depends on what web
>browser you are using but didn't mention.

I use both IE and Firefox.

BTW, IE is my default browser - but I'd like the shortcuts I create to
open with Firefox. Can you tell me how to do this?

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:33:47 -0500, VanguardLH <> wrote:

>five256 wrote:
>
>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>
>>>Visit the web site. Copy their favicon.ico file to somewhere other than
>>>your web browser's TIF cache folder.
>>
>> How do I copy the favicon.ico - never did this before?
>
>You are claiming you don't know how to copy files in Windows? Or how to
>search for files?
>
>When I said to visit a web site, that means to visit there and stay
>there. Do not visit and leave by exiting the web browser as it may be
>configured to clear its TIF folder on exit.
>
>As to where is your web browser's TIF folder, that depends on what web
>browser you are using but didn't mention.

On 4/05/11, posted:
> BTW, IE is my default browser - but I'd like the shortcuts I create to
> open with Firefox. Can you tell me how to do this?

Either copy them to FF's favorites list and click in the browser, or
make FF your default browser.

> On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:33:47 -0500, VanguardLH <> wrote:

>> five256 wrote:
>>
>>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>>
>>>> Visit the web site. Copy their favicon.ico file to somewhere other than
>>>> your web browser's TIF cache folder.
>>>
>>> How do I copy the favicon.ico - never did this before?
>>
>> You are claiming you don't know how to copy files in Windows? Or how to
>> search for files?
>>
>> When I said to visit a web site, that means to visit there and stay
>> there. Do not visit and leave by exiting the web browser as it may be
>> configured to clear its TIF folder on exit.
>>
>> As to where is your web browser's TIF folder, that depends on what web
>> browser you are using but didn't mention.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

wrote:

> BTW, IE is my default browser - but I'd like the shortcuts I create to
> open with Firefox. Can you tell me how to do this?

A URL will open with whatever is currently configured as the default web
browser. If you want a specific web browser to load then you have to
call it in the command.

"<installpath>\iexplore.exe" <url>

"<installpath>\firefox.exe" <url>

I don't use Firefox and won't know where you chose to install it. IE
gets put C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer by
default. This is the same as how you define any shortcut: specify the
program to run along with any command-line parameters.

You give the URL as a command-line parameter. So you specify what web
browser to load and what URL it should open. For those shortcuts, you
can modify their properties to use whatever .ico file you want.