Why is IE so crap?
I have spent around 2 months trying apply a Favicon to IE. It took ten minutes to apply it to Firefox and Chrome.
I have tried both of the following but cant get it to work. Does anyone have any suggestions please on how I can apply a Favicon on IE?
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.website.com/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
The issue is really how you are creating that file. You can’t just take a .gif or .png file and change the extension. There is a free plugin for Photoshop for creating .ico files, and also some online sites that generate them for you. E.g.
plugin
online
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
http://www.favicon.cc/
http://www.prodraw.net/favicon/index.php
Why is IE so crap?
It’s made by Microsoft. That’s what they specialise in. 
Thanks mate,
I have noticed that when I download a Favicon and add it to a folder on my computer I can see he image as a small preview however I couldn’t with the original Favicon I had.
Do I need to use any specific code, would this work?
<link rel=“shortcut icon” href=“/favicon.ico” type=“image/x-icon”/>
That code is ok, but just make sure the favicon is placed in your root folder. Also, it sometimes takes a while for the fav to show up. It helps if you bookmark your site in your browser.