Keeping web icons on my desktop

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Tim, rt click the Desktop>select Properties>Desktop>Customize
Desktop>Web>click the Lock Desktop Items box.
"tim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How can I save the icons on my desktop that are created
> by draging a favorite web link to my desktop.
> I get a nice looking icon from the local paper online or
> accuweather but every once and awhile they disapear and
> are replaced by a standard icon. It seems like they are
> downloaded each time I reboot and some times they do
> not make it. I must then drag a new link to the desktop
> then reboot to see them again.
>
> Is there a way to grab them to store on on my system?
> Thank you
> Tim
>