I'm not sure why custom icons such as the "geek" one at the beginning of the URL, (running Firefox), don't show when dragged to my desktop or for that matter, inside folders under Vista. I had numerous custom icons, (not .ico / .bmp files), that now seem to have reverted back to the firefox default. (It did work. Site icons for Yahoo and a usergroup replaced the default icons).

I was able to drag the same URL geek icon in the address bar from this site on my XP computer to my left running IE7, (this Vista PC defaults to Firefox), so I don't know if this if this is a Vista / XP problem or an IE7 / Firefox difference?

Thanks,

ATF

The yahoo "Y" icon did show up until I discovered suddenly that I was getting a (www.anything.com), not found error when I tried to open site icons on my desktop with Firefox. I found a good registry fix for that, and while I don't relate this to the fix, I had thought it could be an issue with firefox. I deleted the site icons earlier dragged using IE7, and then dragged them back onto the desktop from the URL bar in Firefox. So, now they're gone. There must be something causing that.

Even on the XP, I could never figure out why some default URL icons would seem to suddenly show the custom icon on the site.

I think it's Firefox in this case.

When I drag custom icons from websites to my desktop on my XP machine using IE7, they appear fine. Then through the network to dump them onto the PC desktop running Vista, the icons are back. I think it's Firefox under Vista that reverts them back to the default browser icon.

Icon size could be a factor, I have to look at that more, but below is more information. I do have classic icons set up.

Just by way of observation I switched back to IE7 from Firefox which I had been using as the default browser for 10 weeks. One by one icons started popping back on screen replacing the firefox default icon as I clicked the sites they represented. Except one icon only, which is probably a bit larger and does display on my XP machine. However the icon for one size that seems large never disappeared with Firefox. It's an odd thing.

It seems this is much much more of an issue with Firefox than IE7 under Vista. It wouldn't be the first time a program didn't work correctly with Vista as I'm sure is well known. I have a program that will only run correctly once. I got a tip to remove the program and reinstall it, and it will work again until you close it and run it again.