Wrong Favorites folder.

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Hagar

Something happened to my machine last week, which caused some programs not
to load any more at startup. Then I noticed that my "Favorites" in IE6 was
empty and I traced it back to being a folder under WINNT (the Win2k folder),
instead the normal folder in Documents and Settings/My Name/Favorites, which
I could access until the mysterious event on my machine.

All the links are there, but how do I re-direct IE6 to open the correct
Favorites folder instead of the first one under WINNT.

TIA,

Hagen Sahm
 
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

For Windows 2000/XP:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Window­s\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites


The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ


Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm


....Alan
 
Thank you very much. It took me a little while (not too fond of messing
with the Registry), but once I figured out how to change the entry "type", I
was home free.

Thanks again, Hagen

Alan Edwards said:
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

For Windows 2000/XP:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Window­s\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites


The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ


Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm


...Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

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Something happened to my machine last week, which caused some programs not
to load any more at startup. Then I noticed that my "Favorites" in IE6 was
empty and I traced it back to being a folder under WINNT (the Win2k folder),
instead the normal folder in Documents and Settings/My Name/Favorites, which
I could access until the mysterious event on my machine.

All the links are there, but how do I re-direct IE6 to open the correct
Favorites folder instead of the first one under WINNT.

TIA,

Hagen Sahm
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