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re: Problem with Favorites Internet Explorer Friday, November 2, 2007 at 9:13 am Posted by Special-K (582 messages posted) http://mike-tech.com/article.php?gif=misc&article=303 On Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 8:23 pm, ZoneIII wrote: >Among the things that suddenly went bad with my new Vista machine was that IE suddenly >couldn't link to my Favorites when I clicked "Favorites" even though they were out >there in the Favorites folder. I couldn't' save a Favorite either. It sounded >like a simple thing to fix but I tried everything with no luck. But since I had to >return the PC to Best Buy to have the Geek Squad fix the other things (including >hardware problems), they supposedly fixed my Favorites problem too. But now the >problem is now just different. When I click on Favorites in IE, I see the Favorites >that are listed in My Documents/Favorites. So far so good. But when I save a >new favorite, it saves it to another folder within my first Favorite folder so that >when I click on Favorites again, I don't see what I just saved. In other words, >Favorites is now saving new favorites to a folder within my main Favorites folder, >also called Favorites. Is there any way to tell IE to save it to the main folder >or otherwise fix this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Problem with Favorites Internet Explorer Friday, November 2, 2007 at 9:48 am Posted by ZoneIII (342 messages posted) Thanks, Special K. I'll save that link. However, I found a solution to the problem I had by mistake, actually, and I want to post it here in case someone else has this problem. After searching various forums including the MS IE7 forum but having no luck, I gave Best Buy (where I bought the new PC) Geek Squad a call. The guy I talked to was stumped too. As a first step towards diagnosing and fixing it, he had me copy move drag My Favorites to my desktop but it was obvious that he really didn't know how to approach this. To both our surprise, that fixed the problem. When I saved a Favorite, it saved it to Favorites as IE shows them, not a different folder as it was doing before. The Geek Squad guy was very surprised and had no idea why that fixed it. It's as if just moving My Favorites re-set something or maybe they just won't work when in My Documents. I didn't want My Favorites on my desktop, though, so I just moved the folder so it was outside of My Documents where it had been. It still works. Thanks for your reply. I'm saving the link you posted in case I have a need for it in the future. On Friday, November 2, 2007 at 8:13 am, Special-K wrote: >http://mike-tech.com/article.php?gif=misc&article=303 > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum