You can do this by putting an icon named favicon.ico in your document root directory.

>Hi,
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>I occassionally create shortcuts from my IE browser for a particular site/page and put these on the desktop (by dragging and dropping from the upper left corner). Normally, when I do this, the icon that appears on the desktop is a standard IE icon.
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>I just did this a couple days ago with www.Google.com and the icon was the same as every other IE shortcut. However, when I turned my machine on the next day and logged in, the icon for the Google shortcut changed to a custom icon.
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>How did they do that?
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>I know you can change the icon for a shortcut by using the Properties dialog, but I didn't touch this. What did Google do to make this happen? And how can I do the same in case other users want to create a shortcut from one of my sites?
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>Guy