Baffled about "My Favourites"

lizzo

can anyone tell me why when I save a site into my favourites it has a nice little individual icon (eg picture of Martin for MSE) but when I log on next time, the icon has changed to the "e" explore sign? I find it annoying as it is not so easy to distinguish between the list of sites.

GreenNotM

The file is called the favicon.ico ( fav + icon ) it is held in your internet cache - if you clear your temporary internet files, except by tools>> internet options >> delete files the the favicon.ico will be deleted. the above method leaves the favicon.ico files in place - well in IE 6 it does.....

The default favicon.ico is the blue e. so if the one assigned to the site by the webmaster had been deleted then it will not be there to show

HTH

[Deleted User]

Hi,

I think it's something to do with a file not being retained, it's better now with IE7, seems to save more icons.

Here's a handy wee free prog:

http://favicon.com/

lizzo

thanks to both for your suggestions, I will give it a try.