I have a folder on the desktop of my PC that contains shortcuts to engineering sites and forums. There are about 40 shortcuts in it.
When I access the folder, sometimes all the icons come up as unique to their site but sometimes they just show the Firefox or Internet Explorer standard icons. Any ideas as to why so random?
I've been seeing this behaviour since Windows first started using favicon.ico, which I think was way back on IE3 running in Windows 95. I'm sure there's a documented reason somewhere but I've not found any way of fixing it save for totally deleting the icon cache. That of course requires Windows to build up an index of all the site icons again, which only happens when you visit the site.
I've been seeing this behaviour since Windows first started using favicon.ico, which I think was way back on IE3 running in Windows 95. I'm sure there's a documented reason somewhere but I've not found any way of fixing it save for totally deleting the icon cache. That of course requires Windows to build up an index of all the site icons again, which only happens when you visit the site.
I take it that the icon cache is held in a file somewhere. Is there any way of deleting the icons individually so as to keep the 'good' ones?
Missing icons
Posted - Apr 05 2013 : 06:39:20 AM
