Favorites drop-down empty as well as Explorer window

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Mark R

We have a user whose IE browser does not show anything in
his Favorites drop-down even if you select the Explorer
window which shows as a grey window.

His ACTUAL Favorites folder [ C:\Documents and
Settings\****username***\Favorites ] does contain many
Favorites but they do not show up in the browser.

If you select "Favorites - Add To Favorites" in the
browser window it will not show up in the browser but
will show up in the actual folder.

Any ideas ?
Is there a registy setting or something that is
misdirecting the browser to look in the wrong place ?

Mark
 
You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

....Alan
 
Checked these settings and the 2nd key below was actually
blank !!

I made the user an Admin and then changed the setting but
it keeps resetting back to the "c:\windows\favorites" as
opposed to "C:\Documents and
Settings\**username**\Favorites"

As a temporary fix I moved his favorites to the system
Favorites folder and he can now see all his Favorites.

If anyone can figure it out it would be great

-----Original Message-----
You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi on\Explorer\Shell
on\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

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microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Mark
R"
We have a user whose IE browser does not show anything in
his Favorites drop-down even if you select the Explorer
window which shows as a grey window.

His ACTUAL Favorites folder [ C:\Documents and
Settings\****username***\Favorites ] does contain many
Favorites but they do not show up in the browser.

If you select "Favorites - Add To Favorites" in the
browser window it will not show up in the browser but
will show up in the actual folder.

Any ideas ?
Is there a registy setting or something that is
misdirecting the browser to look in the wrong place ?

Mark
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The second key is often blank. That is not unusual.
Check you have not an overriding value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Mark R"
Checked these settings and the 2nd key below was actually
blank !!

I made the user an Admin and then changed the setting but
it keeps resetting back to the "c:\windows\favorites" as
opposed to "C:\Documents and
Settings\**username**\Favorites"

As a temporary fix I moved his favorites to the system
Favorites folder and he can now see all his Favorites.

If anyone can figure it out it would be great

-----Original Message-----
You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi on\Explorer\Shell
on\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

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microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Mark
R"
We have a user whose IE browser does not show anything in
his Favorites drop-down even if you select the Explorer
window which shows as a grey window.

His ACTUAL Favorites folder [ C:\Documents and
Settings\****username***\Favorites ] does contain many
Favorites but they do not show up in the browser.

If you select "Favorites - Add To Favorites" in the
browser window it will not show up in the browser but
will show up in the actual folder.

Any ideas ?
Is there a registy setting or something that is
misdirecting the browser to look in the wrong place ?

Mark
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