On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:11:07 -0500, "Ken Isaacson"
<KJIsaacson[nospam]******.com> wrote:
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>I kind knew it had something to do with a favicon...but any idea why on my
>old machine they made their way to my QL bar without all the folderol? Just
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Nope. Works both ways for me here and always has.

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>"S. Farragut" <SFarragut@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:494949e0$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...[color=green]
>> you want the favicon.ico of that site...
>>
>> in order to find that icon you will add a /favicon.ico to the address you
>> want.. the main domain.. for example for cnn.com is
>>
>> [url]http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico[/url]
>>
>> the best way to download the actual ico is to use a download manager
>>
>> like freedownloadmanager.org or [url]www.flashget.com[/url]
>>
>> and add the address with the favicon to download in my example this:\
>>
>> [url]http://www.cnn.com/favicon.ico[/url]
>>
>>
>> by the way.. there is an idiot that’s original name-handle is spanky...
>> but it loves to take the identity of others because itself doesn’t have a
>> real identity and it has a total lack of self worth..
>>
>> its suffering from many physiological problems.. in other words it’s a
>> nutcase! So if you see an idiot posting under my name... its not me.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> "Ken Isaacson" <KJIsaacson[nospam]******.com> wrote in message
>> news:D3990B4E-E634-47C1-9C28-8C6062DB6CD8@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>>> Uh, I see how to rightclick on the QL icon (button?), click properties,
>>> click on "Change Icon," but that just gives me choices of icons that
>>> reside on my machine.
>>>
>>> What I'm talking about is automatic on my XP machine: Drag the webpage's
>>> icon directly from the IE Address window while viewing the web page to
>>> the QL bar. This drops the shortcut there on the QL bar, and the icon is
>>> a replica of that appears in the IE Address window....
>>>
>>> "Colton" <educability@**gmail.com**> wrote in message
>>> news:CB88F3AE-DD04-4703-969B-E4316866B03A@microsoft.com...
>>>> "Ken Isaacson" <KJIsaacson[nospam]******.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:6779639B-E141-49C1-B7D7-208F63B3A3C8@microsoft.com...
>>>>> Vista Ultimate, SP1
>>>>>
>>>>> Silly little issue: On my XP machine, if I add a website to my Quick
>>>>> Launch
>>>>> bar by dragging the draggin the web page's icon from the IE Address Bar
>>>>> down
>>>>> to my Quick Launch bar, the resulting icon on my QL bar is an image of
>>>>> the
>>>>> website's icon. (For example, Amazon's is their ubiquitous A with the
>>>>> smile underneath it.)
>>>>>
>>>>> On my Vista machine, the resulting QL icon is the generic Internet
>>>>> Explorer's "E".
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not a big deal...well actually it is, because the unique icon's
>>>>> make visual ID easier.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ken Isaacson
>>>>> SILENT COUNSEL, a legal thriller
>>>>> [url]www.KenIsaacson.com[/url]
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right click on the QL Button > Click "Shortcut" tab > Change Icon...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Colton
>>>> OS: Microsoft Vista Home Premium x86 SP1
>>>>
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