favicon files, how are they handled

I started out with IE6 on my homel laptop which is a dell using XP, SP2, NTFS
file system. In March I accepted the upgrade from MS for IE7. I did not
like it and went back to IE6. I posted at this site on "how to go back".
I'm now back on IE6.

There has been one side effect from the March transactions. When I bookmark
a favorite, I can not find the .ico file from the web site I bookmarked.
Usually I would find them in the temporary internet files folder. My work
laptop currently uses IE6 and the "TIF" folder is where I find the .ico
files. My work laptop is also the same configuration as my home laptop
although it has always been using IE6. I have read that IE6 stores the
.ico's in the temporary internet files folder but that IE7 stores the
information at the location of the bookmarked .url. (actually the
explanation I read was something about an alternate data stream ???) See
attached link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537656(VS.85).aspx

Can someone explain how IE7 is (was) storing the .ico information. Also,
how do I get back the function of the .ico files being stored in the "TIF"
folder

Thanks in Advance
--
Nick

Robert
Mon May 12 14:24:49 PDT 2008

"Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:118F5435-0130-45B9-91DB-2F7429659880@microsoft.com...
>I started out with IE6 on my homel laptop which is a dell using XP, SP2, NTFS
> file system. In March I accepted the upgrade from MS for IE7. I did not
> like it and went back to IE6. I posted at this site on "how to go back".
> I'm now back on IE6.
>
> There has been one side effect from the March transactions. When I bookmark
> a favorite, I can not find the .ico file from the web site I bookmarked.
> Usually I would find them in the temporary internet files folder. My work
> laptop currently uses IE6 and the "TIF" folder is where I find the .ico
> files. My work laptop is also the same configuration as my home laptop
> although it has always been using IE6. I have read that IE6 stores the
> .ico's in the temporary internet files folder but that IE7 stores the
> information at the location of the bookmarked .url. (actually the
> explanation I read was something about an alternate data stream ???) See
> attached link
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537656(VS.85).aspx


Thank you! I have been asking for information like that since IE7b1.
I wonder when that was written? ; )


>
> Can someone explain how IE7 is (was) storing the .ico information. Also,
> how do I get back the function of the .ico files being stored in the "TIF"
> folder


We're not sure. All I know is that I noticed while using FileMon
that the .ico file was being stored under the Favorite's folder
using an NTFS alternate data stream. It still looks like WIP to me. <eg>

If you want to see if the NTFS alternate data streams are still there
after you have uninstalled IE7 you could use the streams.exe command line utility
(originally created by SysInternals, still provided by TechNet.)


>
> Thanks in Advance
> --
> Nick


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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