Vista won't show IE shortcut icons

I have upgraded to Vista. When I place a shortcut to a web site from IE on
the desktop I do not get a specific web site icon as I did with XP. Any
suggestions?

"Ben" <> wrote in message
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>I have upgraded to Vista. When I place a shortcut to a web site from IE on
> the desktop I do not get a specific web site icon as I did with XP. Any
> suggestions?

I think the reason why favicons no longer show up on the desktop may be due
to the fact that IE runs in its own user space when running in Protected
Mode (UAC). At least we can drag shortcuts from the IE address bar still.
I could not do that when running IE through RUNAS in XP.

ss.

Right-click on Desktop, select Personalize, select Display Settings, then
change Color from 32 bit to 16 bit, Apply, and back to 32 bit, Apply. This
refreshes the icon cache. If you get your icons back but soon they are back
to the IE generic, go to your icon, right-click, select Properties, General
tab, check Read-Only, Apply. This will usually help retain the desired icon.
There's also a nice program called FavOrg that harvests and manages
Favorites icons.

"Synapse Syndrome" wrote:

> "Ben" <> wrote in message
> news:4BEA8B90-FE70-4339-82FF-...
> >I have upgraded to Vista. When I place a shortcut to a web site from IE on
> > the desktop I do not get a specific web site icon as I did with XP. Any
> > suggestions?
>
> I think the reason why favicons no longer show up on the desktop may be due
> to the fact that IE runs in its own user space when running in Protected
> Mode (UAC). At least we can drag shortcuts from the IE address bar still.
> I could not do that when running IE through RUNAS in XP.
>
> ss.
>
>
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