The icons when they are put into the link section toolbar, when you place them in from a website usually show a little logo of the website, e.g. www.google.com has a google logo, but all of a sudden the icons have all gone back to the Internet Explorer icon, (yeh i know its not a major important malfunction, but its irritating it doesn't look pretty anymore) why has it done this, and how do i get them back?

Do you mean the icons that appear in your favourites?
the icons usually disappear when you clear your temp internet folders

You can get a programme that'll save them for you

oh i see, ok thanks.

You can do it so they don't disappear, without using a specialist program but I don't know if it's worth the hassle.

When a new Favorites is added to the listing, the favicon is stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder. After a few days, when the older entries in that folder are purged, the favicon file is lost and the listing in Favorites will then display the default icon.

To make the favicon permanent, the user must first copy it to a permanent folder. To do this, open the Temporary Internet Files folder in Windows Explorer. Sort the entries by type (click on Type at the top of the column) which will organize the entries alphabetically by type name. Scroll down to the "I" entries and the favicons will be displayed beside their filenames. Many Webmasters call them "favicons" but they may be called by any name. They will all, however, be of type Icon and have the extension .ico.

Right-click the file to be save and choose Copy from the context menu. Then navigate to the folder where the file is to be saved, click the folder's name to select it, then go to Edit|Paste. The file will be added to the contents of the folder. To prevent duplicate names (many icons copied in this fashion will have the name favicon[1].ico) right-click the filename, select Rename, and type in the new filename

To associate the new favicon with the Favorite, open the Favorites listing in Internet Explorer. Locate the Favorite and right-click it. Select Properties from the context menu. (Note that even if the favicon is displayed at this time, it is being associated to the file in Temporary Internet Files, so associating it with the new file is required.)

On the Properties page, click "Change icon" then click "Browse." Navigate to the folder where the favicons are stored permanently. Click to select the appropriate icon and click "Open." The icon will now be displayed on the Properties page.