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checked carefully, he would also have noticed that the icon is also used in his 
"Favorites" menu. </P>
<P>Internet Explorer ("IE") 5.0 and above has a facility where, if someone 
bookmarks your website (ie puts it in their "Favorites" menu), it associates a 
particular icon with your website in the bookmark. It tries to obtain that icon 
by first requesting for "favicon.ico" from the directory of your web page. If it 
cannot find such a file, it will try to obtain it from the root directory of 
your web