Hi Claude,

Thanks for the URL. I searched MSDN after your first message but got no hits. I must have had a typo or something.

Thanks,
Guy


>Guy,
>
>Google (the web server) makes it possible. Here's more info from Microsoft:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/howto/shortcuticon.asp
>
>>Hi Claude,
>>
>>Do you mean that Google put an icon named favicon.ico in their document root on their server, or did they pass an .ICO file to my machine?
>>
>>Guy
>>
>>>You can do this by putting an icon named favicon.ico in your document root directory.
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>How did they do that?
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>Guy