Slippery Favorites!

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I am trying to have my users save their IE Favorites on their network
home drive (H:\). I go in with regedt32 to
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell
Folders and edit the value of Favorites to H:\Favorites. The problem
lies in the fact that it often changes seemingly on its own to
C:\Windows Favorites. All of a sudden the user complains they have
lost their Favorites and someone has to go out and repoint the
registry back to H:\Favorites.

What could be causing the switch, and more to the point, what can be
dome to nail down the location to their network drive so that it won't
keep switching back to C:\Windows Favorites?

On a slight tangent, perhaps... in that same User Shell Folders
portion of the registry, only Favorites and (default) are set to
REG_SZ. The rest of the entries in there are set to REG_EXPAND_SZ. Is
this correct? Guess I don't know what the difference is.

Thanks in advance,

captnkurt
 
captnkurt said:
I am trying to have my users save their IE Favorites on their network
home drive (H:\). I go in with regedt32 to
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell
Folders and edit the value of Favorites to H:\Favorites. The problem
lies in the fact that it often changes seemingly on its own to
C:\Windows Favorites.
Click to expand...

I have the same problem. It happens if the machine boots and can't get to
the server somehow. Windows sees the bad location, and automatically
"repairs" it. Never did find a decent solution (didn't look too hard tho!),
but you could give them a registry file (just export that key) that they can
install themselves, taking the load off you.

Might require a reboot, but you might get away with it if you tell them to
not have I.E. running when you make the fix.

Fraser.
 
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