Icons

How do you get Windows Vista to allow icons to appear in your desktop short
cut to say.....your bank. I had all these in XP and but now I have a new PC
with Vista it does not seem to allow icons from website to appear in desktop
short cut.

Any ideas


Chris Tilbrook

What do you mean by "desktop shortcut"?

You can create shortcuts on your desktop to websites.
in IE7, right-click on the webpage, select Create Shortcut
--or--
right-click on desktop, select New - Shortcut
enter the URL

Or do you mean in the Start Menu?
create the shortcut (above) and drag to the Start orb.

Or the Quick Launch bar?
drag the shortcut to the Quick Launch bar.




"mamboking1" <mamboking1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:096D0EB0-305B-4405-B52A-25DF05AAB900@microsoft.com...
> How do you get Windows Vista to allow icons to appear in your desktop
> short
> cut to say.....your bank. I had all these in XP and but now I have a new
> PC
> with Vista it does not seem to allow icons from website to appear in
> desktop
> short cut.
>
> Any ideas
>
>
> Chris Tilbrook

I have done this for a few Sites that I really wanted by going into the
Temporary Internet Files folder (C:/Users/your name/App
Data/Local/Microsoft/Windows/) and find the Favicon.ico for the site you
want. copy it to another place that you can reference it when you select
Properties (for the Shortcut on the desktop) and change icon.
--
Paul


"Dave" wrote:

> What do you mean by "desktop shortcut"?
>
> You can create shortcuts on your desktop to websites.
> in IE7, right-click on the webpage, select Create Shortcut
> --or--
> right-click on desktop, select New - Shortcut
> enter the URL
>
> Or do you mean in the Start Menu?
> create the shortcut (above) and drag to the Start orb.
>
> Or the Quick Launch bar?
> drag the shortcut to the Quick Launch bar.
>
>
>
>
> "mamboking1" <mamboking1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:096D0EB0-305B-4405-B52A-25DF05AAB900@microsoft.com...
> > How do you get Windows Vista to allow icons to appear in your desktop
> > short
> > cut to say.....your bank. I had all these in XP and but now I have a new
> > PC
> > with Vista it does not seem to allow icons from website to appear in
> > desktop
> > short cut.
> >
> > Any ideas
> >
> >
> > Chris Tilbrook
>
>

I am new to Windows Vista and I have not been able to create a shoet cut on
my desktop for "Pogo". Idid the right click in the applicatio ab selrcted
"VCreate a shortcut" and if it did I can not find it.
"PaulB" wrote:

> I have done this for a few Sites that I really wanted by going into the
> Temporary Internet Files folder (C:/Users/your name/App
> Data/Local/Microsoft/Windows/) and find the Favicon.ico for the site you
> want. copy it to another place that you can reference it when you select
> Properties (for the Shortcut on the desktop) and change icon.
> --
> Paul
>
>
> "Dave" wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by "desktop shortcut"?
> >
> > You can create shortcuts on your desktop to websites.
> > in IE7, right-click on the webpage, select Create Shortcut
> > --or--
> > right-click on desktop, select New - Shortcut
> > enter the URL
> >
> > Or do you mean in the Start Menu?
> > create the shortcut (above) and drag to the Start orb.
> >
> > Or the Quick Launch bar?
> > drag the shortcut to the Quick Launch bar.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "mamboking1" <mamboking1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:096D0EB0-305B-4405-B52A-25DF05AAB900@microsoft.com...
> > > How do you get Windows Vista to allow icons to appear in your desktop
> > > short
> > > cut to say.....your bank. I had all these in XP and but now I have a new
> > > PC
> > > with Vista it does not seem to allow icons from website to appear in
> > > desktop
> > > short cut.
> > >
> > > Any ideas
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris Tilbrook
> >
> >