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Some of my Favorites have cute little icons but after running Zappit, they are gone and replaced by a regular icon. What happened?

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Some of my Favorites have cute little icons but after running Zappit, they are gone and replaced by a regular icon. What happened?

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Colorful icons are “temp files” called favicons which are stored on the computer as “links” not images. Once you clean your temp files out you clean these “links” out and all the “images” disappear; the page itself is not removed, just the colorful icon. When you revisit those same sites you will once again have the images representing the icons. Having colorful “links to icons” is not a good reason to leave junk files on your computer. Junk files can and do effect system performance and can degrade your computers speed and other functions. Keeping your computer clean by removing temporary files and other junk files is a very important first step in good computer maintenance and having text links to “colorful icons” important enough to allow junk and temporary files to continue to build up on your computer. For those of you who just love those colorful icons, you can set your own up so they do not store as a temp file. Follow our short tutorial on how to make Cloudie icon show up for y

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