All of my desktop icons, except for Microsoft Word, show as an IE icon with a short-cut 
arrow.  How do I change this?   For example, Kim Komondo, which usually shows her 
picture, is shown as an IE icon with a short-cut arrow.

I have searched for answer but all I can find is how to show the desktop IE icon.

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re: desktop icons show as IE icons Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 8:12 pm Posted by Bobcat (274 messages posted) If I understand your question, it sounds like your favicons got deleted. Check out this site and look under the "Preserving Your Favicons" link. http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc2/v12/vic12.htm On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 6:47 pm, foxygrandma wrote: >All of my desktop icons, except for Microsoft Word, show as an IE icon with a short-cut >arrow. How do I change this? For example, Kim Komondo, which usually shows her >picture, is shown as an IE icon with a short-cut arrow. > >I have searched for answer but all I can find is how to show the desktop IE icon. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:03 pm Posted by foxygrandma (287 messages posted) I went to C:\Documents and Settings On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 8:12 pm, Bobcat wrote: >If I understand your question, it sounds like your favicons got deleted. Check out >this site and look under the "Preserving Your Favicons" link. > >http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc2/v12/vic12.htm > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:15 pm Posted by foxygrandma (287 messages posted) Hmmmm, will try again. For some reason, would not paste all of my message, so I will type it in. I wemt to C:\Documents and Settings, Anna Ruth, Local Setings, Temporary Internet Files in Windows XP and they ae mostly .tmp, nothing in there with the name Favicons. I made a folder and named it Favicons, but when I would try to copy the items into the folder.I kept getting an error messge saiyng Error Copying File or Folder. that it is being used by another person or program. On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 8:12 pm, Bobcat wrote: >If I understand your question, it sounds like your favicons got deleted. Check out >this site and look under the "Preserving Your Favicons" link. > >http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc2/v12/vic12.htm > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:32 pm Posted by alex (2812 messages posted) Open Regedit and see these two subkeys. Check the values there if the data values are like in mine.If not,change it.See the DefaultIcon. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico] @="icofile" "PerceivedType"="image" "Content Type"="image/x-icon" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\PersistentHandler] @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile] @="Icon" "ImageOptionFlags"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon] @="%1" On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:15 pm, foxygrandma wrote: >Hmmmm, will try again. For some reason, would not paste all of my message, so I >will type it in. > >I wemt to C:\Documents and Settings, Anna Ruth, Local Setings, Temporary Internet >Files in Windows XP and they ae mostly .tmp, nothing in there with the name Favicons. > I made a folder and named it Favicons, but when I would try to copy the items into >the folder.I kept getting an error messge saiyng Error Copying File or Folder. that >it is being used by another person or program. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 10:21 pm Posted by foxygrandma (287 messages posted) Thank you very much. Will try this later today as it is now 1:15 AM and going to scoot to dreamland. :) On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:32 pm, alex wrote: > >Open Regedit and see these two subkeys. Check the values there if the data values >are like in mine.If not,change it.See the DefaultIcon. > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico] >@="icofile" >"PerceivedType"="image" >"Content Type"="image/x-icon" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\PersistentHandler] >@="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\ShellEx] > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] >@="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" > > > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile] >@="Icon" >"ImageOptionFlags"=dword:00000000 > >[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon] >@="%1" > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 6:41 am Posted by Bobcat (274 messages posted) The favicon will not be named favicon. You will have to revisit the web site and you may have to rebook mark it. It will then create the favicon icon in your TIF . Look for the same pic and copy that icon file only. On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:15 pm, foxygrandma wrote: >Hmmmm, will try again. For some reason, would not paste all of my message, so I >will type it in. > >I wemt to C:\Documents and Settings, Anna Ruth, Local Setings, Temporary Internet >Files in Windows XP and they ae mostly .tmp, nothing in there with the name Favicons. > I made a folder and named it Favicons, but when I would try to copy the items into >the folder.I kept getting an error messge saiyng Error Copying File or Folder. that >it is being used by another person or program. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 7:27 am Posted by foxygrandma (287 messages posted) Thank you,Bobcat. A few minutes ago I happened to remember that I had a registry backup for December 18. (Duh) I did that and the desktop icons are okay now. Thanks so much. Will keep your info for sometime when the registry backups do not work. :) On Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 6:41 am, Bobcat wrote: >The favicon will not be named favicon. You will have to revisit the web site and >you may have to rebook mark it. It will then create the favicon icon in your TIF >. Look for the same pic and copy that icon file only. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 9:42 am Posted by alex (2812 messages posted) Where are you,on a raft in Mid-Atlantic? On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 10:21 pm, foxygrandma wrote: >Thank you very much. Will try this later today as it is now 1:15 AM and going to >scoot to dreamland. :) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 2:14 pm Posted by foxygrandma (287 messages posted) No, Alex, I am in Florida. Happy New Year to all. On Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 9:42 am, alex wrote: > >Where are you,on a raft in Mid-Atlantic? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 6:11 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) FGM, Happy New Year to you as well. PS: I live in the Space Coast of Fla. Hit 80 here today, bummer :-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: desktop icons show as IE icons Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 11:21 pm Posted by foxygrandma (287 messages posted) Yeah, it was 80 here also today, or yesterday as it is 2:15 AM.. Supposed to be in the 40s today. Looking forwrd to a trouble-free computer in 2009. :) On Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 6:11 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >FGM, Happy New Year to you as well. > PS: I live in the Space Coast of Fla. 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