Hi Craig
As I understand the function of the regular reinstall function, as opposed
to the Custom installation, which replaces all files according to the
original default, and is not the same as the repair function, which may
leave data and other types of User settings.
If you still have the old Favorites folder, I can suggest three methods you
can use:
#1. Find the folder where the old Favorites are located
View>Select All>Right click>select Copy
Paste them into the new folder
They should not appear in the Favorites when you open IE
#2. First make a backup copy of the old Favorites folder, then copy all the
contents of the old Folder to the new one. Then close the new Folder,
highlight it, don't open it, then Right-drag this folder to the location you
want to use it instead, i.e., your C:\Documents and Settings\Satoshi\My
Documents" folder and then choose Move here from the menu that pops up when
you drop the folder. IF it asks if you want to replace the old Folder say
yes. If it won't let you replace the folder, then delete the old folder and
do the Right drag process again and this time it sould let you move it. IE
will then automatically reset all the references to that new location, and
all the Favorites should appear in your Favorites menu in IE.
#3. If the above methods do not work, then you may have to make manual
changes in the Registry to change the default location of the Favorites by
making an adjustment in the Register using the methods below. However, make
sure you back it up the Registry before you make any changes.
Courtesy of Tony Klien -
You need to make a new value Favorites with the path to your newly made
folder in
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders
(Note from Jan here: in your case, you will enter the path to your old
Favorites folder instead of the newly made folder.)
On reboot Windows will change the path in
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders as well.
Change the Location of System and Special Folders
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/107/
You need to edit the registry. See "Description of the Microsoft Windows
registry" article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;256986
If you don't prefer editing the registry, use this utility and reset the
Favorites path to defaults.
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/RedirectFolders.htm
If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.
Hope this helps
Jan
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