Favorites List

[Guest]

Help!, I have IE 6 and if I go to my favorites, I see a bunch of files and
folders, and those files and folders are the ones under C:\Windows, and I
don't know what happened. If I go to C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\favorites\ I see my favorites list there. Also, if I click on Organize
Favorites, and try to move a folder, the only option it gives me, is to move
under the Windows folder... does someone know how to fix this and get IE to
take the favorites list from the right path?

 

[Alan Edwards]

You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)

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

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

This may also help if you are using XP
For Windows 2000/XP:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Window­s\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites


The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ


Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm



....Alan