Computer question

[mtrycrafts]

I have been wondering for a while about the logos with the bookmarks in the favorite places.
In the past they all had the usual blue e, then came the logos from the web pages. That was great, easy to tell websites like AH

I have noticed for a while that these logos are now swapping places with the other web sites. Am I the only one? Is it a computer, browser or program issue? Or what? Just very curious.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Sounds like browser. Update to latest version. I highly rec Google chrome, 2nd fav is firefox, 3rd pref is Opera. Don't use IE

I'd also use CCLeaner to clean out temp files.

 

[MDS]

Sites can place an icon in the root directory and the browser will pick that up and show it on the URL bar next to the URL or in Favorites/Bookmarks.

I have noticed for a while that these logos are now swapping places with the other web sites. Am I the only one? Is it a computer, browser or program issue? Or what? Just very curious.

Not sure what you mean by logos swapping places with other web sites.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Sites can place an icon in the root directory and the browser will pick that up and show it on the URL bar next to the URL or in Favorites/Bookmarks.

Not sure what you mean by logos swapping places with other web sites.

I guess my logos are your icons.
What I mean is that one week AH has the icon that is on the home page by my favorite links, that boomerang looking icon then after browsing other sites as different icon is there by the AH link in my favorites list for AH. This applies to the other links as well. They swap icons from all the different links I have. It seems that it wasn't like this a few years back. Either the blue 'e' or what was placed there by the site. Now, they change frequently. Don't know why this happens.

 

[Chu Gai]

Can you do a screen capture of your icon and post it?

 

[mtrycrafts]

Can you do a screen capture of your icon and post it?

How do I do that capture?

 

[MDS]

How do I do that capture?

Ctrl->PrtScn will put the image on the clipboard. Then you can paste it into an image editing program. MS Paint (start->accessories->paint) will work. Then attach the image to your post.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Ctrl->PrtScn will put the image on the clipboard. Then you can paste it into an image editing program. MS Paint (start->accessories->paint) will work. Then attach the image to your post.

I finally had help and I think this is it. As you can see Audioholics Home has the usual logo that is at the AH webpage. However the next line that is directly to these boards the icon is different from another web page. I guess I haven't used the home page for awhile and it didn't change. This applies with other link images; they change over time when I spend time someplace else and 'IT' decodes to use someone elses icon. Beyond me.
Thanks

 

[Warpdrv]

Walk away from Internet explorer as others have suggested. It is hands down "THE WORST" browser available.

I highly rec Google chrome, 2nd fav is firefox, 3rd pref is Opera. Don't use IE

IE is like a constant accident waiting to happen to a computer. Hackers exploit its vulnerabilities making it a portal to plant viruses, spam and all sorts of unwanted evils onto your computer + the fact that its the slowest browser avail makes is just awful to surf the net with.......

Seriously the world would be a better place if IE just fell off the face of the earth...

 

[lsiberian]

Walk away from Internet explorer as others have suggested. It is hands down "THE WORST" browser available.



IE is like a constant accident waiting to happen to a computer. Hackers exploit its vulnerabilities making it a portal to plant viruses, spam and all sorts of unwanted evils onto your computer + the fact that its the slowest browser avail makes is just awful to surf the net with.......

Seriously the world would be a better place if IE just fell off the face of the earth...

Agreed, but it's a lot better than it used to be.

 

[MDS]

I've never seen anything like that but it could be that IE is caching the icons somewhere and somehow has messed up the mapping from icon to URL. I don't know offhand how it does it but you could try clearing the browser cache and deleting all cookies, then restarting IE.

By the way people, the answer to every technical question isn't 'use something else'. The other day my DVD player suddenly wouldn't read any DVDs. If I asked what could be wrong and mentioned that it is an NEC DVD-RW drive would an answer like, 'well, you should be using a Pioneer drive' be helpful at all?

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I've never seen anything like that but it could be that IE is caching the icons somewhere and somehow has messed up the mapping from icon to URL. I don't know offhand how it does it but you could try clearing the browser cache and deleting all cookies, then restarting IE.

By the way people, the answer to every technical question isn't 'use something else'. The other day my DVD player suddenly wouldn't read any DVDs. If I asked what could be wrong and mentioned that it is an NEC DVD-RW drive would an answer like, 'well, you should be using a Pioneer drive' be helpful at all?

I did said way before to use CCleaner - which does amazing job cleaning temp files, including index.dat files which you can't remove using IE

Windows updates never fix existing problems, so other solution would be to use Mark Russinovich methods. Mark wrote books about Windows Kernel. Literally. To get idea how complex is to troubleshoot windows issues you are welcome to read few of his blog posts here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/

While yes, the fix which doesn't involve changing the browser or DVD drive is always theoretically possible , however sometimes such fix is much more complex and expensive than replacement.

 

[MDS]

Windows updates never fix existing problems, so other solution would be to use Mark Russinovich methods. Mark wrote books about Windows Kernel. Literally. To get idea how complex is to troubleshoot windows issues you are welcome to read few of his blog posts here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/

Great idea! Just tell your typical computer user to download the latest symbols for their particular version of Windows, subscribe to the MS developer network to get access to the source code, install the kernel debugger, and have at it debugging 10 million+ lines of code at the assembly language level.

 

[Warpdrv]

Agreed, but it's a lot better than it used to be.

You can polish a turd all your want but in the end it will continue to remain ------------------------ A TURD !!!!!!

IE is and will always be a turd...

 

[mtrycrafts]

I've never seen anything like that but it could be that IE is caching the icons somewhere and somehow has messed up the mapping from icon to URL. I don't know offhand how it does it but you could try clearing the browser cache and deleting all cookies, then restarting IE.

By the way people, the answer to every technical question isn't 'use something else'. The other day my DVD player suddenly wouldn't read any DVDs. If I asked what could be wrong and mentioned that it is an NEC DVD-RW drive would an answer like, 'well, you should be using a Pioneer drive' be helpful at all?

Thanks. I will try this and see what happens.
I downloaded google chrome but that was a headache to try to load up all my favorites, etc, so, now it is history and perhaps caused other problems like links in emails don't open Should have just left everything alone, I guess, as it worked and knew how to use it.