utility program sought

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Looking for a free utility program which will work with OE and let me manage
my FAVORITES. I'd like to be able to group them by categories.
 
RB said:
Yes. For IE. I'm running XP and IE.
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Click on FAVORITES->Organize Favorites. You should get a small window with
several options. You can create folders there. Once you've created folders
you can right-click on the favorites links and cut/paste the links into
whichever folders you like. Alternatively, you can go into something like
Windows Explorer or some other folder/file manager program and navigate to
the folder where your FAVORITES links are residing. Here you can create
folders and move the links around to their suitable folders. Personally, I
prefer the second method...it's more convenient for me to move the links
around in Windows Explorer than to use IE's methods.
 
Thank you very much. This was just what I'm looking for. I had no idea XP
would empower me to do this. I recall FAVORITES in Win98/WIN ME would only
empower you to put the URLs in alphabetical order ( a feature of
questionable value).
 
RB said:
Thank you very much. This was just what I'm looking for. I had no idea XP
would empower me to do this. I recall FAVORITES in Win98/WIN ME would only
empower you to put the URLs in alphabetical order ( a feature of
questionable value).
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Here's a routine that I'm using right now in Windows ME. It brings
sanity to this operation. I don't know if it'll work in XP.

The provided teentsy window is crazy-making and klutzy (brought to you
by the Teentsy Window Conspiracy).

Favorites reside in an ordinary directory; each listing is an individual
file. My directory, therefore, is humungous. You can create nested
subdirectories, which show up as categories. Search for the directory. I
put a shortcut to it on my desktop.

Microsoft has bamboozled folks with the newfangled word "folder," and
cute pictures of file folders. To bring the computer under _your_
control, display your directories in one-line-per-entry format (choose
"View/Details)."

You can open the directory from the desktop. Click on a subdirectory
within it. Once you have switched to the subdirectory, you can open a
second instance of the main Favorites directory.

Now you've got two Favorites directories on your screen and you can drag
the files back and forth between them, and go back and forth within the
directory tree of each indivitual window. The screen behavior will be
strange at times, but this will work.

After you've got all your entries categorized the way you want them,
load Ineternet Explorer. Go into the ordinary Favorites list; here,
believe it or not, you can drag them around to your heart's contenta and
they'll stay where you put them -- unless your main favorites list grows
beyond a size only known to Microsoft. Then it turns into an
alphabetical-ordered mess, or worse.

Let us know how it worked for you, y'hear?

Piece of cake!

Richard
 
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