This has bugged me forever, sorry if the topic belongs in the internet forum... (It could go either way.)
It's desktop shortcuts to web pages. I don't frequent too many sites so I keep desktop shortcuts instead of adding to my favorites folder. My method is:
Click FILE, click SEND, click SHORTCUT TO DESKTOP
About half the time, the new icon placed on my desktop is "custom" (for lack of a better word) to the site I'm creating the shortcut to; you know, the icon matches the site's graphic scheme or logo, ect. The other half of the time, the new icon is Microsoft's plain, ugly, default web page icon. Most perculiar though, is that sometimes my new shortcut's icon is the nice, site-custom icon that I like, but changes to old ugly MS default after a reboot.
So that's the problem. My questions are:
Is this indeed a problem or is it just a shortcoming of my OS or browser?
(OS = Windows XP, browser is the accomp. version of Internet Explorer)
How to fix this if it is my machine, obviously.
A limitation of the web sites that the faulty icons target?
Can I use the Icons' properties settings to change the icon by pulling it off the web site it points to, same as if I wanted to pull an icon from Windows' default list?
I'm pretty much in the dark when it comes to software, any info would help i'm sure.
Thanks & thanks again!
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