To do this for all your bookmarks, not just those in your 'Links' area
download and install 'AM-DeadLink' from the following URL:

[url]http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm[/url]

Very hand tool to do eactly what you wish and more.

Regards

AlanC

"#1 Dave" <dramb_buie******.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, but that would be too much work for the many links that I use.
> I know that there is a way of making all the icons update but have
> forgotten how I did it a year ago.
>
> "Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23iPF8QjhHHA.4844@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> (cross-post added to Vista General)
>> "#1 Dave" <dramb_buie******.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23d%23wlTbhHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> How can I get the icons from various websites to display in the links
>>> toolbar?
>>>
>>> They are there under Win XP but when I boot into Vista.....no icons.[/color]
>>
>>
>> Manually? E.g. find out where a copy of the icon is and then use
>> the Change icon... dialog to have the *.URL shortcut point there.
>>
>> Alternatively, since you have two cases to compare, open the .URL files
>> in Notepad to see if there is a difference in that area. E.g. for
>> *.URL which
>> have icons in XPsp2 I see IconFile= and IconIndex= in them.
>>
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Robert Aldwinckle
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>>
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