Re: Vista IE7 Desktop favicons

(cross-post added to Vista General)
"magic144" <> wrote in message news:79109A71-14F8-4B9A-B981-...
> Hi Robert
>
> that suggestion made no difference to the behaviour?! Still stuck with 'e'!


When? I gave you two steps, one conditional.

BTW this has worked in XP so it looks as if there is a Vista only case.

Cross-posting for your convenience.


Good luck

Robert
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> "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
>
>> "magic144" <> wrote in message
>> news:B2D006D3-406F-4635-A751-...
>> > Hi, just getting started using Vista Home Premium
>> >
>> > I am using IE 7.0.6000.16386
>> >
>> > Whenever I drag an IE shortcut onto the desktop, the favicon is lost,
>> > replaced by the standard IE 'e' shortcut icon
>>
>>
>> Try doing that while you are in a Working Offline state
>> (e.g. press Alt-F,W first.)
>>
>> Does the icon stick then? If so, mark the shortcut as Read-Only.
>> Then go back online to use it and see if the icon sticks still.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > I know that this used to preserve the favicon shortcut icon at one point,
>> > but now it never seems to be displayed - I DO have my desktop set to "Classic
>> > View" so the icons should be the right size to display the favicons
>> >
>> > Can anybody help?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Robert Aldwinckle
>> ---
>>
>>
>>

thanks again Robert
to clarify with you - going offline didn't change the desktop favicon
behaviour
(and hence, I didn't bother making the file readonly...)

as I said elsewhere in this thread,
I have since completely reinstalled (clean reinstall) Vista Home Premium
from the OEM DVD and can confirm this behaviour is occurring out-of-the-box

therefore, this must be a Vista bug... probably with explorer.exe I'm
guessing...

anybody else seeing this (lack of ie7 shortcut icons with Vista?)

cheers

m


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> (cross-post added to Vista General)
> "magic144" <> wrote in message news:79109A71-14F8-4B9A-B981-...
> > Hi Robert
> >
> > that suggestion made no difference to the behaviour?! Still stuck with 'e'!
>
>
> When? I gave you two steps, one conditional.
>
> BTW this has worked in XP so it looks as if there is a Vista only case.
>
> Cross-posting for your convenience.
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert
> ---
>
>
> >
> > "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
> >
> >> "magic144" <> wrote in message
> >> news:B2D006D3-406F-4635-A751-...
> >> > Hi, just getting started using Vista Home Premium
> >> >
> >> > I am using IE 7.0.6000.16386
> >> >
> >> > Whenever I drag an IE shortcut onto the desktop, the favicon is lost,
> >> > replaced by the standard IE 'e' shortcut icon
> >>
> >>
> >> Try doing that while you are in a Working Offline state
> >> (e.g. press Alt-F,W first.)
> >>
> >> Does the icon stick then? If so, mark the shortcut as Read-Only.
> >> Then go back online to use it and see if the icon sticks still.
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I know that this used to preserve the favicon shortcut icon at one point,
> >> > but now it never seems to be displayed - I DO have my desktop set to "Classic
> >> > View" so the icons should be the right size to display the favicons
> >> >
> >> > Can anybody help?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >> Good luck
> >>
> >> Robert Aldwinckle
> >> ---
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

"magic144" <> wrote in message
news:E8D2258F-E7F5-4F49-B4A7-
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> thanks again Robert
> to clarify with you - going offline didn't change the desktop favicon
> behaviour
> (and hence, I didn't bother making the file readonly...)


Actually both ideas have been used for preserving icon changes
after they are made. I was thinking that you could use the Change icon...
command to make the shortcut look the way you wanted *after*
you dragged it to the Desktop if necessary. Setting Work Offline
might be necessary if the site involved actually does have a favicon.ico
at its root, e.g. which might change the icon before you had a chance
to mark it Read-Only.

BTW it might be interesting to compare the contents of the .URL file
for your two cases, Favorites directory and Desktop. E.g. if you had
different values for the IconFile= or IconIndex= variables it might provide
an explanation for your symptom. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find
anything official about these (or any other) implementation details about
favicons.


Good luck

Robert
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