How capture a shortcut icon .ico file?

If I temporarily create a shortcut on my desktop for an internet site and I want to save a picture of the icon for my own use, how can I locate where that particular icon .ico file is located?

 

Look in your Temporary Internet Files folder. Make sure you don't close IE if you have the option to empty that folder on closing of IE.

 

To expand some on what Whiskeyman has been offered, open the TIF folder and click the column header for "File Types" and then scroll down to the listing for ICON. You'll find yours listed there if you are timely and it hasn't been dumped. Copy it somewhere and refer to that location when choosing what icon will represent any particular item.

 

Wow, thanks guys, it works great!

Rob

 

Another way that might be a little easier than digging through you TIFs for it would be to just type the address of the file into the address bar of your web browser. It's pretty simple. For this sight, you'd type www.windowsbbs.com/favicon.ico . It will open to a page that will have nothing but the icon on it. Right click on the icon, choose "save picture as" and save it where you want. Then, when you change the icon for the shortcut, browse to where you saved the icon and select it.

It should be the same for all websites. www. name of website.com/favicon.ico should get you the icon.

 

Hi, Zander.

That must be an IE-only feature. Opening www.windowsbbs.com/favicon.ico in Firefox produces a bunch of garbage characters.

 

Well, I guess you're right. I just tried it in Firefox and got the same gibberish. Still, it's no big deal to open IE and use it to get the icon.

 

Zander,

Great, another super tip! I tried it in IE6 and adding favicon.ico to the url works really slick.

Rob

 

Zander's tip works with Opera also.