MSN Favorites

[Guest]

Good day. I know, I know .... this is not an MSN site .... but I could not
find a newsgroup that was .... and I think this question is fairly simple
...... so if you are inclined, I would appreciate a response. Thank you so
much.
I have a friend who uses MSN, I do not. He wants to move his MSN favorites
over to Internet Explorer. It is my contention that MSN favorites are not
stored locally on his machine. Hopefully I am wrong.
Am I? And if so, where do I go to find his MSN Favorites so I can copy and
paste them to IE Favorites???? (assuming, of course, that he installed using
defaults, and since he is not all that computer literate, I am SURE he did
just that)
Again, my thanks.

Regards,
Don in Tucson
AizA

 

[Rock]

Good day. I know, I know .... this is not an MSN site .... but I could not
find a newsgroup that was .... and I think this question is fairly simple
..... so if you are inclined, I would appreciate a response. Thank you so
much.
I have a friend who uses MSN, I do not. He wants to move his MSN favorites
over to Internet Explorer. It is my contention that MSN favorites are not
stored locally on his machine. Hopefully I am wrong.
Am I? And if so, where do I go to find his MSN Favorites so I can copy and
paste them to IE Favorites???? (assuming, of course, that he installed using
defaults, and since he is not all that computer literate, I am SURE he did
just that)
Again, my thanks.

Regards,
Don in Tucson
AizA

I don't use MSN so I can't answer. Hopefull someone else will but in
the mean time there are several msn newsgroups. Here is a list of all
MS public ones: http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

 

[Plato]

Good day. I know, I know .... this is not an MSN site .... but I could not

Contact the Author of MSN.

 

[Alan Edwards]

MSN Favorites Export Toolkit
http://www.mainsoft.fr/en/downloads.htm


....Alan

 

[Talahasee]

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Good day. I know, I know .... this is not an MSN site .... but I could not
find a newsgroup that was .... and I think this question is fairly simple
..... so if you are inclined, I would appreciate a response. Thank you so
much.
I have a friend who uses MSN, I do not. He wants to move his MSN favorites
over to Internet Explorer. It is my contention that MSN favorites are not
stored locally on his machine. Hopefully I am wrong.
Am I? And if so, where do I go to find his MSN Favorites so I can copy and
paste them to IE Favorites???? (assuming, of course, that he installed using
defaults, and since he is not all that computer literate, I am SURE he did
just that)
Again, my thanks.

Regards,
Don in Tucson
AizA

I believe what you are looking for is this:

1 Open a IE window.

2 Go to the Tools Tab at the top.

3 Select synchronize

This should download all of the MSN settings to the
browser.

4 I would STRONGLY recommend that you convince your friend
to find another provider.

I was with Microsoft BRIEFLY. I am a HEAVY Usenet user.
They have some 80,000 different chat rooms. And I frequent
several besides this one.

I had signed up for MSN ISP service when I first ordered my
new DSL service last year, and I signed up on a Friday. I
was in my Usenet chat rooms basically all weekend.

When I tried to sign in Monday morning, I couldn't get on.

I called my provider (my phone company) which informed me
that:

Microsoft-- like AOL -- filters their content HEAVILY.

That is, if Bill Gates and his crew don't like the content,
you don't get it.

This causes the following very real problem:

Medical doctors have complained that they can't get medical
information from Microsoft or AOL because Bill Gates finds
terms like "penis" "vagina" and "breast" "Offensive."

I am over 21, and I pay my bills.

I have N O intention of allowing Bill Gates or anyone else
to decide what content I should be able to get on my
computer.

On that subject, do you realize that the very meaning of
"pornography" has been redefined by the web?

A recent US Supreme Court decision declared (I won't say a
decision on what) that "community standards" for porn no
longer apply, since an individual doesn't even need to leave
his house anymore to buy virtually ANYTHING.

If you don't know what sort of "porn" I am buying over the
web,

and if neither it nor I ever leave my front door for the
outside world, how is any of that any of your business?

If I have a diaper fetish (I don't), or if I want to watch
women squat and take a leak (yuk), how does that affect you?


Tallahassee

 

[Cindy Winegarden]

I'm Curious - When I do this I only see Offline Web Pages > My Current Home
Page in the list of things to synchronize. How does this transfer the MSN
browser favorites to the IE favorites?

 

[RobertVA]

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I believe what you are looking for is this:

1 Open a IE window.

2 Go to the Tools Tab at the top.

3 Select synchronize

This should download all of the MSN settings to the
browser.

4 I would STRONGLY recommend that you convince your friend
to find another provider.

I was with Microsoft BRIEFLY. I am a HEAVY Usenet user.
They have some 80,000 different chat rooms. And I frequent
several besides this one.

I had signed up for MSN ISP service when I first ordered my
new DSL service last year, and I signed up on a Friday. I
was in my Usenet chat rooms basically all weekend.

When I tried to sign in Monday morning, I couldn't get on.

I called my provider (my phone company) which informed me
that:

Microsoft-- like AOL -- filters their content HEAVILY.

That is, if Bill Gates and his crew don't like the content,
you don't get it.

This causes the following very real problem:

Medical doctors have complained that they can't get medical
information from Microsoft or AOL because Bill Gates finds
terms like "penis" "vagina" and "breast" "Offensive."

I am over 21, and I pay my bills.

I have N O intention of allowing Bill Gates or anyone else
to decide what content I should be able to get on my
computer.

On that subject, do you realize that the very meaning of
"pornography" has been redefined by the web?

A recent US Supreme Court decision declared (I won't say a
decision on what) that "community standards" for porn no
longer apply, since an individual doesn't even need to leave
his house anymore to buy virtually ANYTHING.

If you don't know what sort of "porn" I am buying over the
web,

and if neither it nor I ever leave my front door for the
outside world, how is any of that any of your business?

If I have a diaper fetish (I don't), or if I want to watch
women squat and take a leak (yuk), how does that affect you?


Tallahassee

Your account is confuseing:

Usenet is newsgroups (like a bulliten board), not chats. Were you
accessing a Usenet group about chats, or a chat about newsgroups? Chats
are usually accesed with a Internet Relay Chat (IRC) compatable client
or an AcriveX control in a browser window like the proprietary Microsoft
Chat Control.

The Microsoft/MSN server that echoed the Usenet news groups (the alt.
and rec. ones) has been offline for a couple of years now, and was
pretty much useless for a couple of years before they finally put it out
of it's misery. MSN/Microsoft says it was neglected for lack of customer
interest, but I'm not convinced it wasn't neglected because they
couldn't display advertisements through it.

Try accessing Usenet and other news groups with a news reader like
Outlook Express or Thunderbird. News readers are MUCH better than most
of the web based interfaces like Google and the Microsoft support
center's echo of the msnnews.msn.com news server.

Whatever you were accessing, were you accessing it through a web browser
or some other application? If you were useing a web browser were you
using MSN Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer, one of the Mozilla
browsers like Firefox or some other browser? If you were accessing
through MSN Explorer I can see how you might be subject to MSN
controling the content, as that is offered so that parents can control
what their children access. This content filtering might be the default,
and require readjustment under the primary MSN account password.

Your ability to access content with applications other than MSN Explorer
might depend on the relasionships you have contracted for with your
phone company and MSN. If your phone company is your actual ISP and your
MSN account is one of their "bring your own access" accounts you may be
able to access additional content when not using client software from
MSN. Note that some ISPs might have their own content filtering that
would have to be configured by the primary account holder.