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

In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Hagar"
<hagen@sahm.name> wrote:

>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
>

[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

"Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
news:b0mka15efkcrsr1bgki2sj53firf69o8ot@4ax.com...
> 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"
> <hagen@sahm.name> wrote:
>
> >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
> >
>