[Ham-Computers] Make a Desktop Shortcut to a Web Site

[Jim Hill]

At 01:25 PM 1/4/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 12:32, Jim Hill wrote:
> > There's only one problem, as shown in the following example.
> > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html#nav  points to the Symantec
> > site that provides an antivirus definition download. the icon is the 
> yellow
> > Symantec ball, but when it is moved to the desktop it changes to an IE or
> > Netscape icon, depending upon the browser used.  I didn't have this 
> problem
>
>My guess is that the computer assigns a browser icon because it's saving
>a URL or browser address.  You can technically change the icon to
>anything you want, if you feel like right-clicking, going to Properties,
>and looking around for the icon you want.  It might be doing this
>because of the #nav on the end... see what happens if you try to save it
>without that part.
  This icon thing really confuses me.  I have two computers, both with 
Netscape and IE.  One has Windows Me and the other XP Professional.  If 
bring up a site and look at the address field, most of the time the 
Netscape or IE logo is shown at the far left.  However, sometimes the site 
(Symantec, for example) icon is shown. Dragging it to the desktop may 
provide the site icon, but more likely the IE or Netscape icon.  I can't 
repeat myself.  While right clicking gives you an opportunity to change the 
icon, the choice is pretty limited.  I'll try the other approaches and see 
what happens.
Jim