Wrong Favorites folder.

[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

 

[Alan Edwards]

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

 

[Hagar]

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

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

In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "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