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Windows Find Icon
A few weeks ago, someone asked me if it was possible to write a bat file
that would execute the Windows "Find Files or Folders" feature, when
clicked. I said, "If that's what you really want to do, sure - just
make a simple batch file with the following commands:
@echo off
echo>find.fnd
start find.fnd
but why not just create an actual find icon which you can click directly?"
In the above bat file a find icon is created and then launched.
All you need is the find icon itself - find.fnd - and it doesn't need a
batch file to be created. Right click your desktop, choose New>Text
Document and then name it Find.fnd (or any name you prefer, so long as it
ends with the extension .fnd)
He thanked me and said he hadn't been aware of that and I said, "Hmm -
maybe he's not the only one and I need something to write about for
Linda's ABC - lol.
Preserving Your Favicons
Favicons are those custom icons you see assigned to some of your Favorites
in Internet Explorer 5 and up. Whenever you add a site to your Favorites,
IE first looks for "favicon.ico" on the sites root folder and if found,
that's the icon it assigns to your bookmark. If not found, you get the
default blue and white IE icon.
Having a few Favicons serves a useful purpose - they make it easier to
locate and identify your favorite saved sites in your Favorites list.
Linda's site, for example, uses a bright red heart icon, which can't be
missed no matter how long your Favorite list is.
However, there is one problem with favicons. They get deleted whenever
you clear your TIF (Temporary Internet Files), where the favicons are
stored, and as a result, your saved favicon sites revert back to the
generic blue and white icons.
But it doesn't have to be that way, and contrary to popular belief, you
do not have to revisit the sites and bookmark them again, to get the
favicons back.
You can make your favicons permanent with a simple and familiar method.
Just go to your TIF folder (for quick access, type TEMPOR~1 in your Run
box in Windows 98 or navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\<your user
name>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files in Windows XP).
Copy and paste the favicons you would like to retain into a
different folder. Then go to your Favorites list in IE, right click each
bookmark whose favicon has disappeared, and choose Properties. Now simply
click the Change Icon tab and browse to find and select the favicon you
saved in a different folder. And that's all there is to it.
All your Favorites are just shortcuts (they all have the extension "url"
which the Registry associates with Internet Shortcut) and, like any other
Windows shortcut, they have the Change Icon option. This means you
can assign any icon, not just favicons, to any of your bookmarks.
Web Builder Tip
You can easily assign different icons for different pages on your site by
adding this line anywhere between the HEAD tags of the page:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mysite.com/myicon.ico">
Of course, substitute the url with your own. Also, it doesn't have to be
an icon on your site - you can reference icons from other locations as
well.
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