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Shortcut icons keep getting deleted.

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by minorcorpoffice

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I have several custom shortcut icons on my XP desktop that link to websites. The problem is that every time I go to the website, it deletes my icon and replaces it with theirs. How can I prevent this and lock my shortcut icon? I have tried Desklock.exe, it prevents users from messing with the desktop but not the websites.

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by captbilly1eye

I know whatcha mean. I have tons of shortcuts that are actually web links that I have custom icons associated with.

To prevent them from changing back to the icon loaded by the page, change it to your custom icon, right click on the shortcut and put a check in front of Read Only, click on Apply and then OK. You may get a message stating that 'changes cannot be made to the shortcut' but ignore it and click OK. Right click on it again and verify that it is now set to Read Only. That will keep it from changing back the next time you visit the site.

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