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Different Icons For Saved Webpages

by theunseen Jul 28, 2007 11:10AM PDT

I have several complete web pages saved in my "My Documents" folder. Most show Icon for either Firefox (my default browser) or IE6, but there are about 5 which have the icon for power management! They look just like the icon in control panel for "Power Management". But, if I double click them they open as if icon is correct. Any ideas?

System is home built using the following:

Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA Motherboard
1 Gig of DDR2 @533 MHz (1 stick, soon to be upgraded for dual channel @800 MHz)

1 120 Mb SATA HDD

Operating System is Windows 2000 SP4

All icons were correct 2 days ago. I recently did my Friday backup with Syncback, saving everything to CDs as I normally do.

I can not see a way of changing icons. They do work, but is a minor annoyance. Any help would be appreciated.

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Sounds like the old FAVICON issue.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 28, 2007 11:19AM PDT

Microsoft had an advanced idea years ago called FAVICON for web links and pages. People discovered these icons would vanish if you ran disk cleanup.

That was not a bug.

Research FAVICON.

Bob

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Hit That on The Head

by theunseen Jul 29, 2007 6:44AM PDT

You nailed it. I did the research and ran disk cleanup. Between a few ideas I found and the disk cleanup all is well. Thank you.

The disk cleanup seems to be the method that turned the trick in my case. Thank you, I had never heard of FAVICON before. Learning new stuff all the time.

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