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Rose made a post about our little net surfing friends called  Favicons, the tiny little .ico files which personalise our web site favourites. This by creating a small picture, stored by the favourite name. However for those using IE6 these are stored in temporary internet files, and they get lost when files from there are deleted. You can ditch IE altogether if you want and use Firefox! However, for those reluctant to part with IE, here’s a little tip on how to keep them..

In essence, what we do here is simply make a copy of the .ico file and store it in a new folder in my documents, then point the computer to that file. First, bookmark the site, or add to favourites, close the browser, then open again. In IE go to tools>internet options>settings>view files> then click type. Scroll down the long list until you see files marked .ico, or called favicon. Right click the file you want, select copy, then make a new folder in my documents, call it for example favicons.

Now go to the new folder, and paste the file into there. At this point I recommend renaming this file, because later you will keep being prompted to overwrite it if you don’t. Just give it a new number, like favicon 20, because when you add other files later from temporary internet files the default will always be favicon (1) Now you have the file in place, back to IE, click favourites, find the location, right click, then select properties>change icon. Scroll to the my documents favicon file, select it, then click apply and you’re done. The favicon will never get lost again. And it’s far easier on the eye if you have a long fav list to look for the favicon rather than the site name I think.

Complicated? Well I said you can always use Firefox Though it’s not really complicated, only logical.

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