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Postposted on Sun Jul 27, 2003 1:35 pm

Ok, im just curious to know why, in my favourites menu, all of my bookmarks specific icons vanish after clearing my IE history...except for Toms Hardware? Happens every time. Naturally id prefer the TR logo to stay, but it doesnt and TH does. Why?!

P.s. Are there any cool TR desktop images doing the rounds? If there are id like to see them. Thanks!
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Postposted on Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:08 pm

Perhaps because the icons are stored in the temp files location on your HDD?
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Postposted on Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:23 am

ok, but why does the TH icon stay and the other 30+ favorite icons disappear?
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Postposted on Mon Jul 28, 2003 12:50 pm

Fallbay99 wrote:ok, but why does the TH icon stay and the other 30+ favorite icons disappear?


easy.

the web host or whatever page yer going to has to have an icon file
in their base/root directory (ie: /var/www/favicon.ico)

then within their index.php/index.htm or whatever is the first page that
the consumer views, the code has to have this in it:

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<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="<?php echo $url ?>favicon.ico">


or the HREF (if not using php) can contain the real domain name.

question answered. topic closed. NEXT!
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Postposted on Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:23 pm

but its still there even after i clear history/cookies/all offline content and im offline!
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Postposted on Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:15 pm

Fallbay99 wrote:but its still there even after i clear history/cookies/all offline content and im offline!


k, but i bet it still exists somewhere in the registry...

My Computer -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software ->

-> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer ->

-> ComDlg32 -> OpenSaveMRU -> ico

dunno... try that and see if there's anything there?
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Postposted on Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:10 pm

Does IE clear the registry entries everytime you delete the history then? Since he said that all the icons go away
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Postposted on Wed Jul 30, 2003 1:18 am

:-? how can i get the favorites icons to come back, and stay on?
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Postposted on Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:39 am

You could do something like this:

http://shareware.about.com/cs/computeri ... sicons.htm
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