white border around icons
I have trolled the net for a viable solution to IE icons that have a tiny image and a large white border around them. Some have success but I have never found a solution that works. I have been fighting it since IE 7. We are now on IE 9 and I did a test download for IE 10 and a desktop that did not previously have the problem instantly showed it. We are windows 64 enterprise version IE9 updates supplied via WSUS
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Are you talking about web shortcuts or actual icons for programs and folders etc... A screenshot would be helpful.
If its icons you might try rebuilding the iconcache
Some users have one ortwo and do not even notice. I am out here trolling for info often so I have a lot of IE icons {those are the ones inquestion} 
I had previously deleted the iconcache db but did it again via a cmd line. I read today where the one I deleted from the folder is not sufficient asthere is a cached version somewhere?
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
shutdown /r /f /t 00
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you may also have to delete the thumbcache_xx.db's files ...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer. Disk cleanup can nuke these for you also by checking thumbnails - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
Tried that, no change... I have been after this for months off and on in our work environment. what fired me up again was I inadvertantly got IE 10 on my home pc and when I rolled back to 9, I literally watched them all change when the desktop came back up. there are no shortage of complaints and fixes out there. I assume I will have to live with it... I figured here some guru might have figured it out :-)
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when you right click on the desktop and choose view, what size is picked? - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
Yep... tried that one too. Somebody posted somewhere else I should just live with it. Working with dual monitor in a enterprise environment, I need all the help I can @ 1920 x 1080. I already use glasses :-) I'll bet there are 50 suggested solution on the net and it surprises me either no one has found the fix or I have yet to find that post.
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did you try to right click, go to view, they should be on meduim. pick small, then right click, view and pick medium back. - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
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I love this guys answer
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/ie9-create-shortcut-desktop-icons-either-very/be6c48d5-01c8-479e-99e7-ac5e5b092691
RajithR replied on
February 28, 2012
Support EngineerCommunity Star
Hi,
Unfortunately, this is by design in Windows 7.
You may post your valuable feedback in our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum. - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
Mr. Microsoft has provided a nice way for me to make a living, but there are items and actions that befuddle my little mind and this is one of them. Thank to all of you for your help. J.M.
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I always say "Thanks Bill" every time I run into crap like this. Our biggest bitch was how now you can expose the wireless password just by checking a box.
If I run across an easy fix I will add it here so you get an email. - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
There is still a unidentified variable here as my home PC was fine until I moved to IE10 and when I did a roll back then, I got caught. Something in my IE9 HP windows 7 64 Home premium (HP box) was not affected until that event. And I take all the updates they feed me.
Am hoping someone here will come up with a fix for the shrunken favicon/white border problem so will be following this. Certainly this is the closest any thread has come to addressing my question which is the same. ('fraid there's not a lot of concern about this though, which just goes to show...) - brucewhain 11 years ago