Hi,

When I save out an HTML file to my desktop (I'm using Windows XP), it
saves with the Firefox icon, presumably because I have Firefox as the
default application to open my HTML files. Is it possible to have the
desktop icon be the favicon.ico file of the web site from which I'm
saving the page?

Thanks, - Dave

laredotornado schreef:
> Hi,
>
> When I save out an HTML file to my desktop (I'm using Windows XP), it
> saves with the Firefox icon, presumably because I have Firefox as the
> default application to open my HTML files. Is it possible to have the
> desktop icon be the favicon.ico file of the web site from which I'm
> saving the page?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

No, if your filetype is htm or html or whatever, Windows will display
the icon associated with that file. Maybe you can teach the OS to
display something different, but that 'something different' will be used
for all that kind of files.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I save out an HTML file to my desktop (I'm using Windows XP), it
> saves with the Firefox icon, presumably because I have Firefox as the
> default application to open my HTML files. Is it possible to have the
> desktop icon be the favicon.ico file of the web site from which I'm
> saving the page?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

If you save it somewhere and then create a shortcut to the file on the
desktop you can change the icon for the shortcut. However, you'll also
need to save the favicon.ico file locally in order to point the shortcut
to it. Just right-click the shortcut and choose "Change icon."

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Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
All the easy stuff's already been invented. - my brother-in-law, PhD. in
physics, 1988

On 4/6/2008 7:37 PM, laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I save out an HTML file to my desktop (I'm using Windows XP), it
> saves with the Firefox icon, presumably because I have Firefox as the
> default application to open my HTML files. Is it possible to have the
> desktop icon be the favicon.ico file of the web site from which I'm
> saving the page?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

For any given file-type in Windows, there can be only one icon. That
is, ALL files with that type must have the same icon.

However, if you are not saving actual files but instead are saving
Internet shortcuts, you can have a different icon for each (as described
by Ed Mullen elsewhere in this thread).

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