Losing some of my favorites on the favorites list

[Loring Hutchinson]

using Win XP. I keep losing some of my favorites from the favorites
list of Internet Explorer.

I go to Tools/Internet Options/General/History and there is a place to
set the "Clear History" options. Does this feature also clear recently
added favorities????

TIA

LMH

 

[David Candy]

No.

 

[Loring Hutchinson]

Then what is causing my "favorites" to disappear?????

 

[David Candy]

Don't know. Windows won't delete them.

 

[Mike]

Are you using the function 'add as a favorite' or are you just assuming that
typing in the URL will save in the dropdown list for ever more?..

 

[Loring Hutchinson]

I'm using the "add as a favorite" function. I do a lot of Ebay stuff
and losing the favorites I have saved for Ebay alone is a real bummer.
Any ideas???

TIA LMH

 

[David Candy]

Windows DOESN'T delete your favourites. Give info or go away.

 

[Loring Hutchinson]

Don't be nasty. If I knew what other info to give I would give it.
What other info can I give?
LMH

else to On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:47:06 +1000, "David Candy"

 

[Loring Hutchinson]

I located all my missing favorites in C:\Documants &
Settings\Loring\Favorites. The problem is that about half of these
used to be accessible in "Favrites" of Internet Explorer.
They weree there yesterday and now they are not.

LMH

 

[wojo]

Your right being "nasty" didn't help especially sine I can't even think of
any other info you could have given.
I don't know of any that do this but it's possible that you have a virus or
some other sort of malware that is deleting favorites. Try these links to
see if cleaning up your system helps:
Download the programs and then update them before runnnig them.
AdAware: www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot S & D: www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Online Virus scan: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Please post back so we know whether the problem is solved or not.

 

[wojo]

I located all my missing favorites in C:\Documants &
Settings\Loring\Favorites. The problem is that about half of these
used to be accessible in "Favrites" of Internet Explorer.
They weree there yesterday and now they are not.

LMH

hmmm, that is exactly where they are supposed to be.

 

[David Candy]

1. Windows doesn't delete your favourites

That is the central point. Everything flows from that.

Therefore

1. Your favourites aren't being deleted, or
2. Something, you or a program, is deleting them.

Lets assume 1 first. We'll do 2 afterwards.

How do you know your favourites are being deleted? Obviously because you can't find them. But that does not automatically mean that they are being deleted. Log on as an admin, set your advanced search options to Search System Folders and Search Hidden Files (make sure subs are selected too as it already should be) then search for the name of the favourites (aka shortcuts - favourites are shortcuts in the favourites directory). Or search for all Internet Shortcuts (*.url in Search For Files Named).

Also type cmd in Start Run, then
dir /a /s /b c:\*.url |more

Put the first few letters in front of the * (eg if I was looking for a favourites that starts E-Bay use dir /a /s /b c:\E-B*.url |more

You need to find patterns in the events (they disapper on sundays only or only after updating my AV). Give concrete examples, if you can, of the shortcut.

Also look at this
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?...en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wg

 

[David Candy]

Is there a chevron at the bottom of the menu.

 

[Loring Hutchinson]

There is no chevron at the bottom of the menu.