Internet Explorer (11.0.8) Icons.

[Yzöwl]

Now, I'm sure that I'm not the only one with this as a problem, and there's a fair chance it's been this way for many years, but I decided to try and use the built in Browser, (because it's wrong to not test all of the preview OS), and I've got some major annoyances already.

 

However the most annoying is this:

 

When I logged on earlier today, it appeared that all of my Desktop URL's have had their icon, (the one which belongs to IE as the default browser) changed to the site icons of the sites they link to.

 

I don't want any site icons, my expectation of an icon is to indicate the program which opens that file type. If I want an document which opens in Excel I look for the Excel X icon, in Word the unmistakable W icon and in Internet Explorer the even better known e icon. I do not want an Amazon icon and I certainly don't want the one of a naked lady, above the label 'boring work stuff'.

 

Can anyone tell me if now that I've 'changed icon' back to the default at C:\Windows\System32\url.dll whether this is going to happen again, and if so how to stop it.

[NoelC]

I have always used Internet Explorer.  It's not bad once you reconfigure it to use its security model properly.

 

Honestly, I've never been able to figure out when or if it's going to use the site Favicon or the local application icon.

 

As an example, I have a desktop link to my Ooma page, so I can quickly call it up and add junk callers to the blacklist.  I have one on my main workstation Win 8.1 desktop and on my Win 10 VM's desktop as well.  At the moment my WIn 8.1 desktop icon has the curvy blue Favicon from Ooma.com, and my Win 10 desktop icon has the IE 'e' icon.

 

One thing you can do that seems to favor retaining the application icon is to create your desktop shortcut with a command line of the form: 

 

executable  URL

 

...in other words, create the shortcut manually, and for the Target field, put in...

 

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"  http://www.mysiteurl.com

 

-Noel

Edited March 23, 2015 by NoelC