What is it with site icons and windows 7 - keep changing.

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  1. Posts : 119
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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    What is it with site icons and windows 7 - keep changing.


    Hi i had alittle issue back with windows xp when i had that, but eventually the icons would settle down and be correct if i just gave it some time.

    But with windows7 it really is a pain. No only do my site icons (of my websites) not show up correctly, they keep changing to this default earth globe. I finally have to change them back manually by using change icon and browse and finding the icon on my system.

    Then just now i added a new subdomain and all of a sudden all the icons for that whole domain changed to the one i just added, im like WTH. so i checked the link tag on the site and it was correct.

    Makes me wonder what my users and customers are dealing with, they dont have the luxury of just assigning my site ico file manually.

    So two questions:

    What is the deal here, why do they change?

    Why does windows make this so complicated. If there is a link tag in the file that says the icon should be this ico file on the site then WTH is the problem and why cant windows handle such a simple task?

    Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 2,362
    Win7 H.Prem. 32bit+SP1
       #2

    Do this:-

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  3. Posts : 2,066
    Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
       #3

    Roderunner said:
    Do this:-
    I just viewed my personalization settings and the box has been unchecked for some time. Yet sometimes my desktop icons change but eventually go back to what they should be.
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  4. Posts : 2,362
    Win7 H.Prem. 32bit+SP1
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    roncerr said:
    Roderunner said:
    Do this:-
    I just viewed my personalization settings and the box has been unchecked for some time. Yet sometimes my desktop icons change but eventually go back to what they should be.
    Hi roncerr, did you change these setting also ?

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  5. Posts : 119
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Thanks i made the changes to both, lets see what happens. Appreciate the help. :)
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  6. Posts : 2,066
    Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
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    Roderunner said:
    Hi roncerr, did you change these setting also ?...
    They were checked, so I just unchecked them. Can't see the connection between mouse pointers and internet icons but might as well try it. Thanks.
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  7. Posts : 2,066
    Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
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    roncerr said:
    Roderunner said:
    Hi roncerr, did you change these setting also ?...
    They were checked, so I just unchecked them. Can't see the connection between mouse pointers and internet icons but might as well try it. Thanks.
    Well I made all the changes suggested, even though my icons were properly showing the internet icons for this forum (Browsers and Mail) and for Google at the time. A week has past and now the desktop icons have just changed to generic as shown:
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  8. Posts : 2,362
    Win7 H.Prem. 32bit+SP1
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    roncerr said:
    Well I made all the changes suggested, even though my icons were properly showing the internet icons for this forum (Browsers and Mail) and for Google at the time. A week has past and now the desktop icons have just changed to generic as shown:
    Are they desktop or taskbar icons ?
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  9. Posts : 2,066
    Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
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    Roderunner said:
    roncerr said:
    Well I made all the changes suggested, even though my icons were properly showing the internet icons for this forum (Browsers and Mail) and for Google at the time. A week has past and now the desktop icons have just changed to generic as shown:
    Are they desktop or taskbar icons ?
    Desktop.
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  10. Posts : 2,362
    Win7 H.Prem. 32bit+SP1
       #10

    This is some of my desktp icons, the others are at default settings.

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