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Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Posted by dennislink (1 messages posted)

I have a question about Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts:

I think I found a solution for this problem. At first my apollogies for my spelling because I come from Holland. What I do for this problem is the following: First I don't make a shortcut directly to the webpage (URL) but instead I SAVE the webpage (I want to make shotcut of) by "file > Save as" and then save this webpage in whatever folder. Then I shut down IE and go to my desktop. From my desktop I make a shortcut to the webpage I just saved. This is mostly a .mht or an .html file. This icon you can change by usin the rightclick on the icon and then go to "properties > change icon". I hope this will solve the problem for you.

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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Posted by werner (7087 messages posted)

But you would then have to keep the Page in that Folder as Reference,otherwise the Shortcut would revert to a Generic Icon?Quite a bit of useless Ballast to have on the Machine,when you have a number of Shortcuts.Why not just save the Favicon and be done with.There was a Program from PC-Magazin one time that used to let you do that. :) werner

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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Posted by Steve (21668 messages posted)
The lengths IE Users goes through.:)

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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts'
Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Posted by werner (7087 messages posted)

sure glad I am using FF. :) werner

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