Icons on favourites - taken from google

[moggie 939]

On my old laptop which was XP when I saved websites to Favourites they nearly always retained their own icon ie BBC, Channel 4od etc

My new laptop is Windows 7 and when I save websites to Favourites in the same way they nearly all end up with the same (green, red, yellow ball) google icon. Going into properties and change icon only gives me 3 other options, all Google where as before I had loads of options? Am I doing some thing wrong or is this another thing about Windows 7 I am finding difficult - I much preferred XP!

Thanks

Moggie

[boxtops]

I don't know the answer but I'm on 7 too, and I find my favourites icons often change, and adopt the icon of the previous web-page on that tab - answerback currently has my bank's icon!

[NazNomad]

There are known issues with displaying Favicons on Win7. I don't have a solution though

[rojash]

The way favourites are handled has nothing to do with your operating system (Windows 7). It's down to your browser. I guess you have IE 8. Why not try Firefox or Google Chrome?

Firefox:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Chrome:
http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en-GB

[moggie 939]

Thanks Rojash. I had IE7 on XP (I think) Will try Firefox - have heard good reports of it

[moggie 939]

Hi
With a bit of messing around I have found out how to get up the FULL list of icons, not just the 5 google ones!

If you want this option, first change your icon to the ' google g' Then, once that is applied go into propertiesfor the same icon again and you will now be able to choose from the complete list of icons - don't ask me how!

Moggie