Desktop Icons reverting to the blue e

[sanddrag]

Those icons are temporary files that are deleted each time you clear the internet cache. There are programs out there that can retain them for you. Sounds like this might be what you need.

[whitetiger0990]

Using Chief Delphi as an example,

You can download the icon yourself and save it somewhere.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/favicon.ico

Then you can go to your desktop, right click the shortcut, go the properties.
Somewhere in there should be a Change Icon button (in Vista it's under the Web Document tab). Click it, find where you saved the icon. As long as the .ico file stays where you saved it, that'll be the icon for that shortcut. Sanddrag is probably right and the file is being saved in the cache which is clearing every once and awhile.

You can do this with other sites too. The file is usually called 'favicon.ico' and is in the root directory of the site. (E.g.: http://www.google.com/favicon.ico http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico etc) You can rename it when you save it (you should probably preserve the .ico extension)

[Protronie]

Wow quick replies with help, yeah thats exactly whats happening I think.

So is this saving the icons and such something everyone usually does or am I just being picky about them disappearing all the time?

Thanks for the tips.!