Why Do Certain Favicons Not Appear in Favorites?

I have a problem that has been puzzling me, and am hoping somebody can help me. I'm using Internet Explorer 7 and recently I got a new computer. I saved my favorites and moved them to my new computer and all favicons were lost. When I revisit most sites their favicons show back up in my Favorites, but some, maybe 50 or so, will not put the favicon back. Instead they just have some unknown generic icon, not even the blue E IE default icon. Most of these favicons will show up fine in the address bar, but will not replace this generic icon in the favorites list. I'm surmising that something in the bookmark is looking for one particular icon and the website has changed to a different icon that it will not recognize. Is there anyway that I can delete the icon file info in the bookmark or reset it somehow to get it to accept the site's favicon instead of having this ugly generic icon? Is there a place in the windows registry that lists all favorites and allows you to edit them in this way?

Thanks,
Mike

 

See if this helps:
http://www.windowsbbs.com/internet-explorer/78346-ie-link-icons-disappear.html

While I have never used "favorg program" perhaps it will help you as it has others.

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I suspect that when you copied (backed up) your favorites the icons that the properties were set may no longer available. Either they were in a folder you failed to include with the backups of the favorites or they were cached in the older computers "ie temp" which is gone. In any case the above link and explanation should help to clear this up for you.

 

Mike

I had the same last week and found this brilliant (free) program:
http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm called AM-DeadLink 3.3 all of my icons are back now and It also managed to remove a lot of dead links as well as duplicates.

I would suggest you copy your favorite's to a temp location first, but I had no issues at all.

Paul