Favorites - IE looking for user favorites in different place

[Guest]

Logged in as the Administrator in XP Pro SP2, IE looks for the Favorites
under Documents and Settings for the user/Administrator as expected. This
used to be the same place (Documents and Settings for the user logged in) IE
looked for the Favorities when logged into the same PC as a user. Not any
more. IE now looks to Windows/Favorities. Why? What happened? How do I fix it
please? The Favorites are still where they belong/I expect them. IE is just
looking in another place for this user only. Note, the Administrator is
working fine.

Thanks so much for the help.
-Charlo

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Charlo,

Type regedit.exe in Start/Run. This opens the Registry Editor. Inspect the
Favorites path in this registry location:

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

In the right-pane, set the "Favorites" value to "%Userprofile%\Favorites" of
type REG_EXPAND_SZ (not REG_SZ)

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the help Ramesh. It is set to that already. Any other ideas?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Charlo,

Have you checked the value type? It should be in REG_EXPAND_SZ.

Also, check here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

 

[Guest]

I think that's the culprit -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

The settings for Favorites there are:

reg_sz
c:\windows\favorites

If I understand you correctly I should change both of these settings to:

REG_EXPAND_SZ
%Userprofile%\Favorites

Right?


Thank you again.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Charlo,

Under "User Shell Folders"
REG_EXPAND_SZ - %Userprofile%\Favorites

Under "Shell Folders"
REG_SZ - C:\Documents and settings\<username>\Favorites

 

[Guest]

Thank you sooooo much Ramesh. That solved my problem.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome! Charlo

 

[FrankV]

The default location is changed by a program. I tracked it down when I got
the same problem. I don't remember which program it was but I checked into
the security, etc and the program was not causing any problems other than
redefining the default location.

You could probably

Frank