When a web site provides a custom icon on a saved Favorite-Shortuct, how can
I find the file that holds the custom icon?. The file name or path to the
icon is not displayed in the properties of the shortcut. I haved searched
for all .ico files and the custom icon is not a .ico file.

Thanks

Hi steveeb,

The icon that is used for favorites icon for a web site can be found (if it
exists) in the root folder of the web site and by default is named
favicon.ico

eg. type http://www.iecustomizer.com/favicon.ico in the address bar of your
browser.

If you open a favorite link (*.url file type) with notepad you will see the
internal workings of these types of files.
eg.
url=http://www.iecustomizer.com
iconindex=0
iconfile=http://www.iecustomizer.com/favicon.ico

when you change the favicon for a favorite link to an icon file on your
computer these entries change to something like
url=http://www.iecustomizer.com
iconindex=101
iconfile=shell32.dll

Tip: Add notepad to your send to folder, then you can right-click on a
favorite and use the send to Notepad menu option to display/edit its
contents.
Regards.
"steveb" <swb_mct@msn.com> wrote in message
news:eyRcdfzYHHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> When a web site provides a custom icon on a saved Favorite-Shortuct, how
> can I find the file that holds the custom icon?. The file name or path to
> the icon is not displayed in the properties of the shortcut. I haved
> searched for all .ico files and the custom icon is not a .ico file.
>
> Thanks
>

Hi,

To add to the excellent reply you received from Rob, it's also important to
note that IE7 handles Favicons differently than IE6. IE7 employs
ADS(Alternate Data Streams), to place a hidden file in the Favorites folder
that contains the favicon for the URL. With this new ADS functionality,
when you empty your TIF(Temporary Internet Files) folder the favicon for
your saved Favorite URL is not lost because there is now a hidden copy of
that favicon stored in the Favorites Folder along with the URL.

You can not see this hidden favicon file in the Favorites Folder using
Windows Explorer, you will have to use a third party viewer such as the
shell extension program "Stream Viewer"
http://www.jsware.net/jsware/sviewer.php3

Which adds a new tab to the right-click properties dialog box call
"Streams". This allows you to right-click on the saved Favorites URL in the
Favorites folder to determine if there is a hidden (ADS) file associated
with it, what it's name is, and what it's size is.

My observations of this new implementation so far would indicate that when
you first visit a site (example: Google.com), the favicon.ico for Google is
downloaded to the TIF folder, and this is what is being displayed in your
Address bar. If you then add that site(Google.com) to your Favorites, a
hidden file containing the favicon is also added to the Favorites Folder
along with the URL. In the example of Google.com the hidden file would be,
Name:favicon
Size:1406.

Of course this only pertains to Favorites that were added by IE7, all
imported Favorites from IE6 will not have a hidden (ADS) favicon associated
them...unless they are resaved using IE7.

Emptying the TIF(Temporary Internet Files) folder of favicon files then has
no affect on the favicon being displayed in your Favorites folder because it
is now drawing upon that hidden favicon file that is stored in the Favorites
folder along with .URL file.

There's not much(if any) documentation out there on this new implementation,
but these are my observations on how it works.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell




"steveb" <swb_mct@msn.com> wrote in message
news:eyRcdfzYHHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> When a web site provides a custom icon on a saved Favorite-Shortuct, how
> can I find the file that holds the custom icon?. The file name or path to
> the icon is not displayed in the properties of the shortcut. I haved
> searched for all .ico files and the custom icon is not a .ico file.
>
> Thanks
>

Thanks to both of you for the info.


"Donald Anadell" <danadell@nospamersmikrotec.com> wrote in message
news:OYQJc8$YHHA.4308@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> To add to the excellent reply you received from Rob, it's also important
> to
> note that IE7 handles Favicons differently than IE6. IE7 employs
> ADS(Alternate Data Streams), to place a hidden file in the Favorites
> folder
> that contains the favicon for the URL. With this new ADS functionality,
> when you empty your TIF(Temporary Internet Files) folder the favicon for
> your saved Favorite URL is not lost because there is now a hidden copy of
> that favicon stored in the Favorites Folder along with the URL.
>
> You can not see this hidden favicon file in the Favorites Folder using
> Windows Explorer, you will have to use a third party viewer such as the
> shell extension program "Stream Viewer"
> http://www.jsware.net/jsware/sviewer.php3
>
> Which adds a new tab to the right-click properties dialog box call
> "Streams". This allows you to right-click on the saved Favorites URL in
> the
> Favorites folder to determine if there is a hidden (ADS) file associated
> with it, what it's name is, and what it's size is.
>
> My observations of this new implementation so far would indicate that when
> you first visit a site (example: Google.com), the favicon.ico for Google
> is
> downloaded to the TIF folder, and this is what is being displayed in your
> Address bar. If you then add that site(Google.com) to your Favorites, a
> hidden file containing the favicon is also added to the Favorites Folder
> along with the URL. In the example of Google.com the hidden file would be,
> Name:favicon
> Size:1406.
>
> Of course this only pertains to Favorites that were added by IE7, all
> imported Favorites from IE6 will not have a hidden (ADS) favicon
> associated
> them...unless they are resaved using IE7.
>
> Emptying the TIF(Temporary Internet Files) folder of favicon files then
> has
> no affect on the favicon being displayed in your Favorites folder because
> it
> is now drawing upon that hidden favicon file that is stored in the
> Favorites
> folder along with .URL file.
>
> There's not much(if any) documentation out there on this new
> implementation,
> but these are my observations on how it works.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Donald Anadell
>
>
>
>
> "steveb" <swb_mct@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:eyRcdfzYHHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> When a web site provides a custom icon on a saved Favorite-Shortuct, how
>> can I find the file that holds the custom icon?. The file name or path
>> to
>> the icon is not displayed in the properties of the shortcut. I haved
>> searched for all .ico files and the custom icon is not a .ico file.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
>
>
>

Thanks for link Donald.
"Donald Anadell" <danadell@nospamersmikrotec.com> wrote in message
news:OYQJc8$YHHA.4308@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> To add to the excellent reply you received from Rob, it's also important
> to
> note that IE7 handles Favicons differently than IE6. IE7 employs
> ADS(Alternate Data Streams), to place a hidden file in the Favorites
> folder
> that contains the favicon for the URL. With this new ADS functionality,
> when you empty your TIF(Temporary Internet Files) folder the favicon for
> your saved Favorite URL is not lost because there is now a hidden copy of
> that favicon stored in the Favorites Folder along with the URL.
>
> You can not see this hidden favicon file in the Favorites Folder using
> Windows Explorer, you will have to use a third party viewer such as the
> shell extension program "Stream Viewer"
> http://www.jsware.net/jsware/sviewer.php3
>
> Which adds a new tab to the right-click properties dialog box call
> "Streams". This allows you to right-click on the saved Favorites URL in
> the
> Favorites folder to determine if there is a hidden (ADS) file associated
> with it, what it's name is, and what it's size is.
>
> My observations of this new implementation so far would indicate that when
> you first visit a site (example: Google.com), the favicon.ico for Google
> is
> downloaded to the TIF folder, and this is what is being displayed in your
> Address bar. If you then add that site(Google.com) to your Favorites, a
> hidden file containing the favicon is also added to the Favorites Folder
> along with the URL. In the example of Google.com the hidden file would be,
> Name:favicon
> Size:1406.
>
> Of course this only pertains to Favorites that were added by IE7, all
> imported Favorites from IE6 will not have a hidden (ADS) favicon
> associated
> them...unless they are resaved using IE7.
>
> Emptying the TIF(Temporary Internet Files) folder of favicon files then
> has
> no affect on the favicon being displayed in your Favorites folder because
> it
> is now drawing upon that hidden favicon file that is stored in the
> Favorites
> folder along with .URL file.
>
> There's not much(if any) documentation out there on this new
> implementation,
> but these are my observations on how it works.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Donald Anadell
>
>
>
>
> "steveb" <swb_mct@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:eyRcdfzYHHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> When a web site provides a custom icon on a saved Favorite-Shortuct, how
>> can I find the file that holds the custom icon?. The file name or path
>> to
>> the icon is not displayed in the properties of the shortcut. I haved
>> searched for all .ico files and the custom icon is not a .ico file.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
>
>
>