re: Internet shortcuts’ custom icons (favicons) from IconPath not displayed Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 10:02 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by bachware (2 messages posted) I have both Firefox and MSIE 8β on my XP SP2 system. Internet shortcuts (.URL files) used to display any custom icons (favicons) their IconFile= strings pointed to, but, regardless of what these specify, I started just seeing the MSIE e icon. Since I prefer Firefox, I applied Annoyances’ Internet Shortcut Registry hack (EditFlags=0, renamed the IconHandler key to IconHandler.old, etc.) to free up Internet shortcuts’ default icon from showing only MSIE’s e, so I now see only the global, default Firefox icon specified in the Registry. But favicons, when specified in the Internet shortcut’s IconFile= string, are still not seen. If I edit such string to customize it, it’s shown in the customization dialog’s pane afterward, but the Desktop still shows the default icon. If I then re-open the .URL file in Notepad to check, it indeed has the right (customized) string in there, but when clicking on the file's properties and selecting Properties | Change Icon, the string it shows is "%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll" and not the customized IconFile string in the .URL file (Internet shortcut). This tells me that the shell is disconnected from the customized string, and it “snaps back” despite all I try. I suspect there’s something in the Registry that needs to be reset (hacked) to connect Explorer’s Desktop handler to the code module that reads the IconPath string, so that it shows the customized favicon. Instead, Explorer is throwing up its hands in confusion, and just putting up the default. Any ideas? On Monday, January 21, 2008 at 10:22 am, MW wrote: >Well, I tried to change the icon of a single internet shortcut on the desktop, and >didn't make it. Before I applied the advice here, it just stubbornly stayed the big >"e". After I made the registry change, the icon changed... to an ugly Windows default >one. Written in response to: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (MW: Monday, January 21, 2008 at 10:22 am) Responses to this message: re: Internet shortcuts’ custom icons (GeoNOregon: Friday, April 25, 2008 at 11:46 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (MW: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 10:22 am) re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (Ms. Eagle: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 10:40 am) re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (MW: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 10:52 am) re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (Ms. Eagle: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 11:14 am) P.S. re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (Ms. Eagle: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 11:43 am) re: P.S. re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (MW: Tue, Jan 22, 2008, 3:57 am) re: P.S. re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (Ms. Eagle: Tue, Jan 22, 2008, 2:09 pm) re: P.S. re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (MW: Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 2:49 am) re: P.S. re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (Ms. Eagle: Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 12:30 pm) re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' (Steve: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 11:10 am) re: Internet shortcuts’ custom icons (favicons) from IconPath not displayed (bachware: Thu, Mar 20, 2008, 10:02 am) re: Internet shortcuts’ custom icons (GeoNOregon: Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 11:46 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum