Desktop icons changing with IE7

> ...Is there a way to

> cross-post one message to multiple newsgroups?

Yes: I'm crossposting this reply to WinXP General!

Bobbi wrote:

> PA Bear- I believe you were the one who suggested that my original post in

> windowsxp.general should have been posted in this forum, so I did. I do

> understand that cross-posting wastes everyone's time. Is there a way to

> cross-post one message to multiple newsgroups?

>

>> Asked/Answered in WinXP General (where we've also discussed the 2+ years

>> of Windows Updates you've not yet installed, including SP3). If you must

>> make identical posts to multiple newsgroups, please cross-post one (1)

>> message to all of them. Thank you.

>>

>> Multiposting vs Crossposting:

>> http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm Bobbi wrote:

>>> I seem to have messed up my computer.

>>>

>>> I've just now installed IE7 and ran into the problem of my self-made

>>> desktop

>>> icons for websites being replaced by the general IE symbol. I read some

>>> old

>>> posts and think I've learned how to fix that, but in the meantime I took

>>> one

>>> suggestion of resetting my desktop appearance special effects to NOT use

>>> large icons and then resetting it again to USE large icons. That was a

>>> mistake. Now I can't seem to change the desktop icons which refer to

>>> websites on the web: I select the one I want from

>>> my special icon folder and click OK and then apply, but it won't change

>>> it.

>>> The icon flashes briefly but then remains the same old IE symbol.

>>>

>>> So my questions are now:

>>>

>>> (1) How to get the desktop to replace the icon with the one I've

>>> selected,

>>> and

>>> (2) How to get IE7 to stop changing them.

>>>

>>> Note: I CAN change desktop icons for shortcuts which refer to web pages

>>> which are entirely on my computer. Why not for shortcuts which refer to

>>> real

>>> websites?

>>>

>>> Thanks,

>>> Bobbi