ie favorites disappeared ,contents of windows folder in favorites window

[kay]

My 'favorites' or bookmarks were replaced in IE 6 by the
contents of my windows folder on the c drive. If I delete
one of the favorites, I am deleting the item from my
windows folder.

How can I undo this and get back to my original favorites
or just start clean.

Thanks
KH

 

[Alan Edwards]

The Registry setting appears to have been corrupted.

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

....Alan