How many favorites can you have in IE6?

[tracymar55]

I do research on the Internet and have 22,000 favorites in Internet
explorer. The past few days IE started to crash constantly. I have to
start it about 4 times before it will be stable (I'm still using IE 6,
have been too anxious about upgrading to 7). Could my large number of
favorites be a reason for the crash? I don't want to reduce the number
since I use at least 100 of them a day, from many different folders,
and it's too time-consuming to keep exporting and importing them.

Do you think my large number of favorites are the reason for the
crashes?

Can anyone tell me if IE 7 is more stable?

Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Tracy

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Tracy,

Most problems with IE are caused by third-party Addons (search toolbars?)
which could be tracking your web surfing and monitoring your favorites.

Try running your browser with Addons disabled (Tools>Internet Options -
Advanced tab - uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions) to see if
this will stop the browser crashing.
If so check the options of your Addon toolbars and turn off any 'Quality
Control' or feedback options that may be monitoring your surfing habbits.

Also check your TIF (Temporary Internet Files) folder - Tools>Internet
Options - General tab - Temporary Internet Files - Settings button. Check
that you have allocated enough disk space (50Mb should be ample) and that
"Automatic" is selected for the "Check for newer versions of stored pages"

A general computer maintenance (disk defrag, registry clean) may also help.
As your favorite titles are stored in the registry (to allow sorting) it may
well be that you have hit a limit to the number of items that IE can sort to
display in its menu. You could try turning off "Personalize Favorites" on
the Advanced tab of Internet Options which will limit the menu display to
the most recently used favorite links.

You don't need to store your Internet Shortcuts in the Favorites folder. To
archive your favorites create a new folder on your hard disk (Windows
explorer) and cut and paste some of your favorites sub-folders to the new
folder. You could then add this new folder to the taskbar (right-click on
taskbar, choose Toolbar, Add Toolbar and select your new folder).

If possible avoid or limit saving Off-line favorites as these will
automatically check for newer versions as you are browsing the web and a
large number could slow down your browser.

There are some free Favorite Managers available for download that you may
like to investigate, but it is wise anyway to make a backup copy of your
favorites folder(s) (not an export from the IE menu) that you can recover
to.

Regards.