Internet Explorer 7 links bar

[lpsitman]

I have IE7 and I am noticing that the icons I use for the links shortcuts never stay put! They seem to randomly go back to the Internet Explorer "e" logo.No matter how many times I change some of them, they dont take. What could cause this?
Thanks
John

 

[smah]

IE7 uses the favicon by default. If the website has no favicon, the default IE icon is used instead. This is a common complaint that I hope will be resolved someday.

 

[lpsitman]

What I really meant is after I change the favicon to one of my preferences,then shut down IE, the favicon comes back to replace the icon which I had. Any known problems regarding this?

 

[smah]

If you change it manually, it will not stay. IE uses the website's favicon, not the one that you manually pick.

 

[lpsitman]

Here is what I do. I goto a favorite on my links bar. I right click and choose properties. I choose the change icon option to the red asterisk icon.Once I click apply and ok, it stays for a session, but then changes back the the blue IE icon. This doesnt happen for all my favorites, only a few. Would recreating the link help?

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

Any useful information for you here?

http://www.favicon.com/ie.html

Check out this, more towards the bottom.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=503598

Joey
A+, Network+, MCP

 

[smah]

As I've mentioned, you can customize them all you'd like, but they won't stay. MS is aware of this behavior and hopefully will fix it someday.