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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Posted by Malcolm Fowler
(1612 messages posted)
I think you can change them as File Types (*.URL) in XP using the proceedure in this
article: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/sawyer_03june30.mspx If
you want to change individual url shortcuts I think you will have to resort to third
party software(?)
On Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 7:06 pm, Irv Kramer wrote:
>"It's seemingly impossible to do something as simple as change the icon for all
Internet
>Shortcut files on your desktop (*.URL).
>Has anyone figured out how to do this?
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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Friday, August 18, 2006 at 12:37 am
Posted by Fay
(159 messages posted)
Maybe it's different on some machines, but when I right click on an Internet shortcut
on my desktop and choose Properties, I have an option to Change Icon.
Oh. Rereading, I see you want the same icon for all. Maybe you'd have to do them
individually.
On Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 7:06 pm, Irv Kramer wrote:
>"It's seemingly impossible to do something as simple as change the icon for all
Internet
>Shortcut files on your desktop (*.URL).
>Has anyone figured out how to do this?
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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Friday, August 18, 2006 at 8:32 am
Posted by Irv Kramer
(5 messages posted)
No, I do not want them all the same. It's different for an internet shortcut then
for a windows shortcut. ALthought, as you say you have the option to change them,
but they do not change.
On Friday, August 18, 2006 at 12:37 am, Fay wrote:
>Maybe it's different on some machines, but when I right click on an Internet shortcut
>on my desktop and choose Properties, I have an option to Change Icon.
>
>Oh. Rereading, I see you want the same icon for all. Maybe you'd have to do them
>individually.
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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Friday, August 18, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Posted by Fay
(159 messages posted)
I have a folder full of shortcuts to various web sites. I have different icons for
most of them. I don't know if this makes any difference, but I'm not using those
icons that you're first offered when you hit the Change Icon button. I have a folder
of icons I made myself, and I browse to that folder.
Are you signed in as admin when you try to change the icons?
On Friday, August 18, 2006 at 8:32 am, Irv Kramer wrote:
>No, I do not want them all the same. It's different for an internet shortcut then
>for a windows shortcut. ALthought, as you say you have the option to change them,
>but they do not change.
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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Friday, August 18, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Posted by Irv
(1 messages posted)
I have the same thing, seperate folder for icons. I browse to that folder and select
the one I want.
Thanks
On Friday, August 18, 2006 at 3:18 pm, Fay wrote:
>I have a folder full of shortcuts to various web sites. I have different icons for
>most of them. I don't know if this makes any difference, but I'm not using those
>icons that you're first offered when you hit the Change Icon button. I have a folder
>of icons I made myself, and I browse to that folder.
>Are you signed in as admin when you try to change the icons?
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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 6:59 am
Posted by Carl Marcus
(5 messages posted)
I can change the icon for a url shortcut on the desktop, but when I double click
on it to access the website, the icon changes back to the default of the website
itself. This started happening when I installed IE 7.
On Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 7:06 pm, Irv Kramer wrote:
>"It's seemingly impossible to do something as simple as change the icon for all
Internet
>Shortcut files on your desktop (*.URL).
>Has anyone figured out how to do this?
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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:10 am
Posted by Snowie0wl
(1 messages posted)
One workaround is to put the .URL somewhere else then make a shortcut to it. You
can't simply hold alt and drag or right-click and go to "create shortcut" to do this.
That will just copy the shortcut - no thank you, that's not what I wanted, Windows!
However, you can make a shortcut to any other file and then manually edit its target
property to point to the .URL file.
On Friday, August 18, 2006 at 8:32 am, Irv Kramer wrote:
>No, I do not want them all the same. It's different for an internet shortcut then
>for a windows shortcut. ALthought, as you say you have the option to change them,
>but they do not change.
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