tried all of below and still no nearer, will just have to live without icon, no big deal just thought that it would look nice.
Thanks for all your help
Slán
~M

>Try to clear your browser cache first.
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>Be sure to put the full URL of the file like "http://mysite/icon.ico".
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>>i tried that but it didn't work, i have referenced the favicon.ico icon through many different links (c:\inetpub..., localhost\mysite\... etc) but none of them have worked. could it be my setup? i am using 2k with iis and ie6
>>Slán
>>~M
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>>>You have to put this in the head section of the html page:
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>>><LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://full.url.of.the.icon.ico">
>>>

>>>
>>>HTH :-)
>>>
>>>>hi,
>>>>i have a web site and i have the favicon.ico file in the root, and i also reference the file on the web pages but still i don't get the icon appearing in the address bar, any ideas?
>>>>Slán
>>>>~M