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To use a different site icon.
- Start up SharePoint Designer 2010
- Open your site
- Navitate to the Master Pages library
- Click on the the Master Page that your site uses (this is v4.master for a default team site)
- Click on the Edit file link under Customization
- Locate the tag "<SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon " in the code
- Replace the url to favicon.ico with your own ico file.
To convert a .gif file to .ico format, I use this site http://www.prodraw.net/favicon/index.php